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Interesting. And if you put a null byte at the end of that character array, it would put it in a different section? I don't have access to MacOS, but I would be interested in seeing the output of clang -S on that code (with and without a null byte), maybe you could add it to the repository?

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If I'm remembering correctly (this was from 3 years ago), the string was moved to a different section if it had a null byte in the middle of the string. That's why coming up with the assembly I used was kinda tricky.

Here's the output as-is: https://gist.github.com/vivekseth/20f319d2a9978af57d926b649a...

Here's the output with a null byte in the middle: https://gist.github.com/vivekseth/fc50319aaac24588bcf568209b...

From what I can tell, it seems like both strings are in the TEXT section now. Maybe something changed, or I'm remembering incorrectly.

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