Here's what happens with a variant of 'unixodbc' with one character removed from its name, to make an odd number of characters. The last character 'c' is all by itself. The chunks of the reference
/gnu/store/il1bn7n0l4yj3idrii23fhvzg4nn939i-unxodbc-2.3.4/etc are found in the following order: 1_/gnu/sto 2_________________________________________________________4/et 3_________re/il1bn 4_________________7n0l4yj3 5_________________________idrii23f 6_________________________________hvzg4nn9 7_________________________________________39i-unxo 8_________________________________________________dbc-2.3. 9_____________________________________________________________c ======== /gnu/store/y2dwj5vkbxka7y5rlakprbk4k8vrd5ij-unxodbc-2.3.4/lib/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0 8238: 48 b8 2f 67 6e 75 2f movabs $0x6f74732f756e672f,%rax ; "/gnu/sto" 823f: 73 74 6f 8242: c7 05 6c fa 20 00 34 movl $0x74652f34,0x20fa6c(%rip) ; "4/et" 8249: 2f 65 74 824c: c7 05 2e 0a 21 00 01 movl $0x1,0x210a2e(%rip) 8253: 00 00 00 8256: 48 89 05 23 fa 20 00 mov %rax,0x20fa23(%rip) 825d: 48 b8 72 65 2f 69 6c movabs $0x6e62316c692f6572,%rax ; "re/il1bn" 8264: 31 62 6e 8267: 48 8d 1d 5a 94 00 00 lea 0x945a(%rip),%rbx 826e: 48 89 05 13 fa 20 00 mov %rax,0x20fa13(%rip) 8275: 48 b8 37 6e 30 6c 34 movabs $0x336a79346c306e37,%rax ; "7n0l4yj3" 827c: 79 6a 33 827f: 48 89 05 0a fa 20 00 mov %rax,0x20fa0a(%rip) 8286: 48 b8 69 64 72 69 69 movabs $0x6633326969726469,%rax ; "idrii23f" 828d: 32 33 66 8290: 48 89 05 01 fa 20 00 mov %rax,0x20fa01(%rip) 8297: 48 b8 68 76 7a 67 34 movabs $0x396e6e34677a7668,%rax ; "hvzg4nn9" 829e: 6e 6e 39 82a1: 48 89 05 f8 f9 20 00 mov %rax,0x20f9f8(%rip) 82a8: 48 b8 33 39 69 2d 75 movabs $0x6f786e752d693933,%rax ; "39i-unxo" 82af: 6e 78 6f 82b2: 48 89 05 ef f9 20 00 mov %rax,0x20f9ef(%rip) 82b9: 48 b8 64 62 63 2d 32 movabs $0x2e332e322d636264,%rax ; "dbc-2.3." 82c0: 2e 33 2e 82c3: 48 89 05 e6 f9 20 00 mov %rax,0x20f9e6(%rip) 82ca: b8 63 00 00 00 mov $0x63,%eax ; "c" 82cf: 66 89 05 e6 f9 20 00 mov %ax,0x20f9e6(%rip)