Re: [RFC PATCH v4 06/19] hw/arm: Filter machine types for qemu-system-arm/aarch64 binaries

[Pierrick Bouvier]

On 4/23/25 13:04, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 4/23/25 12:33, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
> > Else, in case we make this array const, can we expect the linker to deduplicate 
> > it? I'm
> > not familiar with how final .data section is assembled.
>
> No, we do not expect de-duplication.
> It's a "that would technically break the object model" thing.
> Const or not,
>
>     static S *a = &(S){ };
>     static S *b = &(S){ };
>     assert(a != b);

I see.
However, it's only type names, and not really object models (we don't 
duplicate interfaces themselves, but list of interfaces).

Or did I miss something in QOM?

> r~