For reasons unknown, if you give MSVC:
// Foo.h
struct Foo
{
...
};
extern const Foo gFoo;
// Foo.cpp, which necessarily includes Foo.h.
extern constexpr Foo gFoo = {
};
MSVC will create a static initializer for gFoo and place it in the
read/write data section, rather than the read-only data section.
Removing the `extern const` declaration seems to be enough to make this
problem go away. We need to adjust the declaration of other variables
to compensate for the non-visibility of gFoo in the header file.