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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 11:09:25 +0100
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On 01/06/2024 02:37, jak wrote:
> bart ha scritto:
>> I can see that the first two can be subtracted to give the sizes of 
>> the data, which is 70 or 0x46. 0x46 is the last byte of the address of 
>> _size, so what's happening there? What's with the crap in bits 16-47?
>>
>> I can extract the size using:
>>
>>     printf("%d\n", (unsigned short)&_binary_hello_c_size);
>>
>> But something is not right. I've also asked what is the point of the 
>> -size symbol if you can just do -end - -start, but nobody has explained.
> 
>      typedef unsigned char uchar;
>      extern uchar _binary_hello_c_size[];
>      long hello_c_size = _binary_hello_c_size - (uchar *)0;

What result for the size did you get when you ran this?

It seems people are just guessing what might be the right code and 
posting random fragments!