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

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/20f319d2a9978af57d926b649adc0bde https://gist.github.com/vivekseth/20f319d2a9978af57d926b649a... Here's the output with a null byte in the middle: https://gist.github.com/vivekseth/fc50319aaac24588bcf568209bf6df8e 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.