Re: [cc65] Why does sizeof(string) generates data?

From: "Ullrich von Bassewitz"; on Friday, January 25, 2013; at 4:05 
PM -0500
>
> It's already there: "--local-strings: Emit string literals to the data 
> segment
> when they're encountered in the source."

From: "Ullrich von Bassewitz"; on Friday, January 25, 2013; at 5:18 
PM -0500
>
> Back to the problem: " --local-strings" is a rarely used option. Combine 
> that
> with the rare use of "sizeof <string literal>", and remember that nothing
> bad happens; it's just a few bytes wasted. I doubt that this special
> scenario is worth a whole paragraph in the docs.

A parenthetical phrase is good enough:

"--local-strings: Emit string literals into the rodata segment as soon as 
they're encountered in the source (even if you do nothing but get the 
sizeof those strings)."

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