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Feature request: C23's #embed preprocessor directive
See https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/700
TL;DR: It allows to include any external binary data into your executable.
see also @ThePhD 's blog posts about this: https://thephd.dev/embed-the-details ; https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23 and their test library for this feature: github.com/ThePhD/embed
Many thanks for your project and keep moving on <3
When implementing this, see TODO[#174]
in the sources.
Right now, Cesium targets to be a C17-compatible implementation.
When/if (yes, I am that pessimistic) C23 comes out, this will automatically become a part of our goal.
The development resources for Cesium are really limited, and the goals are enormous, so I don't believe we can focus our efforts on features on a future version of the standard today.
Moreover, we have a milestone-targeted approach to development and mostly implement features that are required to compile our target milestone programs. As there are not a lot of programs which are viable Cesium milestone targets and simultaneously use #embed
, this cannot be our priority at the moment.
We accept contributions, though, and I'd be happy to see an implementation of #embed
.