aoc-2020 VS incbin

Tsoding (there is a vods channel on yt, but he usually streams on twitch)

If anyone wanted to play with solution his solution to the problem the code is on his github https://github.com/tsoding/aoc-2020/tree/master/12-perl

OK, yes, that does work. You can totally put application specific stuff in the elf and reflect on it at runtime. Much easier is to embed it directly and point a symbol value at the start of the data.

See https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin for a pretty wrapper around that.

Aside from there being a drastically simpler answer to this problem available in sketchily documented fashion (the asm guys know .incbin is a thing, but higher level languages overcomplicate it), it's a good post. Idea is sound and goal was achieved.

Thanks for the link. We also make static websites by direct inclusion their HTML code in the C++ binary of ClickHouse.

I've tried to use this library but found a bug: https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin/issues/61

won't work, since the preprocessor won't interpret directives inside string literals of course.

In many assemblers, there is a directive called "incbin" which pastes in unstructured binary data at the point of usage. I just found a very clever C and C++ wrapper [1] for that, which gives you an INCBIN() macro. Nice!

[1]: https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin

There's always this: https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin

Haven't the people making the standards other things to do, like, integrating useful features instead of duplicating incbin.h [0] years after that feature worked?

https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin/blob/main/incbin.h

There is a project "https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin" that can take a file and put that file content into the sketch ROM segment as constant / resource. It is an even nicer alternative to "xxd -i" or using string literals like: const char bla[] PROGMEM = R"CERT( ... )CERT";