You are perfectly right. And there's also a second use-case: In some embedded ap...

		cnvogel on Dec 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Incorporating and accessing binary data into a C p... You are perfectly right. And there's also a second use-case: In some embedded applications things run directly from ROM/flash and things put in the .rodata-section will stay there and not get copied to RAM (which you obviously have to do for modifyable data).