Compiler stops optimizing unused string away when adding characters

I am curious why the following piece of code:

#include <string>
int main()
{
    std::string a = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO";
}

when compiled with -O3 yields the following code:

main:                                   # @main
    xor     eax, eax
    ret

(I perfectly understand that there is no need for the unused a so the compiler can entirely omit it from the generated code)

However the following program:

#include <string>
int main()
{
    std::string a = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP"; // <-- !!! One Extra P 
}

yields:

main:                                   # @main
        push    rbx
        sub     rsp, 48
        lea     rbx, [rsp + 32]
        mov     qword ptr [rsp + 16], rbx
        mov     qword ptr [rsp + 8], 16
        lea     rdi, [rsp + 16]
        lea     rsi, [rsp + 8]
        xor     edx, edx
        call    std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::_M_create(unsigned long&, unsigned long)
        mov     qword ptr [rsp + 16], rax
        mov     rcx, qword ptr [rsp + 8]
        mov     qword ptr [rsp + 32], rcx
        movups  xmm0, xmmword ptr [rip + .L.str]
        movups  xmmword ptr [rax], xmm0
        mov     qword ptr [rsp + 24], rcx
        mov     rax, qword ptr [rsp + 16]
        mov     byte ptr [rax + rcx], 0
        mov     rdi, qword ptr [rsp + 16]
        cmp     rdi, rbx
        je      .LBB0_3
        call    operator delete(void*)
.LBB0_3:
        xor     eax, eax
        add     rsp, 48
        pop     rbx
        ret
        mov     rdi, rax
        call    _Unwind_Resume
.L.str:
        .asciz  "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP"

when compiled with the same -O3. I don't understand why it does not recognize that the a is still unused, regardless that the string is one byte longer.

This question is relevant to gcc 9.1 and clang 8.0, (online: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/p1Z8Ns) because other compilers in my observation either entirely drop the unused variable (ellcc) or generate code for it regardless the length of the string.