Usually, the access to the IROM (flash) memory requires 32-bit word aligned reads. Attempts to access data in the IROM (flash) memory less than 32 bits in size triggers a LoadStoreError exception. With the exception handler from esp-open-rtos it becomes possible to access data in IROM (flash) with a size of less than 32 bits and thus to place .rodata sections in the IROM (flash).