https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115768
--- Comment #5 from biggs at biggs dot xyz --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #4) > (In reply to biggs from comment #3) > > > > The unused names are optimized out here and string_view is simply a > > contiguous array of characters not pointers. > > Nope, it is still an array of pointers (and lengths) pointer. > > static const struct array names = {._M_elems={{._M_len=3, ._M_str=(const > char *) "RED"}, {._M_len=5, ._M_str=(const char *) "GREEN"}, {._M_len=4, > ._M_str=(const char *) "BLUE"}}}; So the argument here is that C23's constexpr does not permit this optimization because it does not allow constexpr pointers other than nullptr?