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feat: add compiler config for not merging const sections

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Probably GCC-13.x and on-wards uses "-fmerge-constants" to merge
the const section (string/floating-point) across compilation units.
This makes it difficult to properly analyze the size output of rodata
section across libraries, the merged section (big in size) is showed
across a single library.

The config option added here can help to disable this compiler behavior
and help to provide better size analysis. It can be used during
development phase only as it increases rodata section size.
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Mahavir Jain
2024-07-12 11:50:17 +05:30
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.. note::
The size of the ``.rodata`` section in the ``Flash Data`` memory type may appear very large for a single archive. This occurs due to linker relaxations. The linker may attempt to combine object file sections with ``MERGE`` and ``STRINGS`` flags from all archives into one to perform tail string optimization. Consequently, one archive may end up with a very large ``.rodata`` section, containing string literals from other archives. This is evident in the ``.rodata`` section of the ``libesp_app_format.a`` archive.
The size of the ``.rodata`` section in the ``Flash Data`` memory type may appear very large for a single archive. This occurs due to linker relaxations. The linker may attempt to combine object file sections with ``MERGE`` and ``STRINGS`` flags from all archives into one to perform tail string optimization. Consequently, one archive may end up with a very large ``.rodata`` section, containing string literals from other archives. This is evident in the ``.rodata`` section of the ``libesp_app_format.a`` archive. The specific compiler behavior here can be turned off by enabling :ref:`CONFIG_COMPILER_NO_MERGE_CONSTANTS` option (only for GCC toolchain), please read help for more details.
Source File Usage Summary ``idf.py size-files``