by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 32)
Holds strings for the symbol table.
This section has sh_type == SHT_STRTAB.
It is pointed to by sh_link == 5 of the .symtab section. 
readelf -x .strtab hello_world.o
outputs: 
Hex dump of section '.strtab':
  0x00000000 0068656c 6c6f5f77 6f726c64 2e61736d .hello_world.asm
  0x00000010 0068656c 6c6f5f77 6f726c64 0068656c .hello_world.hel
  0x00000020 6c6f5f77 6f726c64 5f6c656e 005f7374 lo_world_len._st
  0x00000030 61727400                            art.
This implies that it is an ELF level limitation that global variables cannot contain NUL characters.

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  1. Sections
  2. ELF Hello World Tutorial
  3. Executable and Linkable Format
  4. Executable file format
  5. Systems programming
  6. Software
  7. Computer
  8. Information technology
  9. Area of technology
  10. Technology
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