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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:58:37 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:07:37 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>
>> ... general compression isn't something I've seen ...
>
> I recall Apple had a patent on some aspects of the “PEF” executable format 
> that they created for their PowerPC machines running old MacOS. This had 
> to do with some clever instruction encodings for loading stuff into 
> memory.

Is that relevant to what I asked about?

What I had in mind is something that, given this:

    static int buf = { 1, 1, 1, ..., 1 }; // say, 1000 elements

would store something less than 1000*sizeof(int) bytes in the executable
file.  I wouldn't be hard to do, but I'm not convinced it would be
worthwhile.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */