On: Incorporating and accessing binary data into a C program

[ksherlock]

Back in the days of BeOS and gcc 2.95, I ran out of memory (32M!) trying to compile xxd-type data. x86 BeOS used ELF and PPC BeOS used PE (and the MetroWerks toolchain) so using the linker trick probably wouldn't have been an option (had I known about it at the time!).