Re: Getting binary data linked into an executable

FROM : Paul Thomas
DATE : Mon Jun 02 21:02:26 2008

On 2 Jun 2008, at 19:55, SD wrote:

> Would memory mapping the files work for you?


It's not the particular API, I want to avoid accessing the disk at all 
to get the data.
I want the data linked into the executable in the data segment. (it's 
a unit test)

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>> I've got some huge test data that I need to access as C arrays 
>> inside a command line test app. I don't want use file I/O at 
>> runtime and the compiler is groaning under the weight if I generate 
>> source files with the data in hex or what have you.
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>> Does anyone know a way to simply link the data into my executable?
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>> It seems that most ELF systems allow this using GNU objcopy or even 
>> ld (ld -r) but apple's tools aren't playing ball.
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>> ta,
>> pt.
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