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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 00:44:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 26 May 2024 13:09:36 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> People have always managed to embed 
> binary source files into their binary output files - using linker 
> tricks, or using xxd or other tools (common or specialised) to turn 
> binary files into initialisers for constant arrays (or structs).

Don’t call them “tricks”. Call them “linker scripts” and “build 
procedures”. They can do some quite complex things.

> #embed has two purposes.  One is to save you from using external tools 
> for that kind of thing.

But it can only be a partial solution to that. It cannot replace the 
procedures needed to construct the binary data format. It only solves the 
easy part: including that binary data in the build. And only in a certain 
way.

That’s why I think it’s a waste of time.