[fpc-pascal] Including binary data making easy

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Tuesday 28 August 2012 19:44:49 schrieb Sven Barth:
> On 28.08.2012 09:10, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > On 28 Aug 2012, at 09:03, Sven Barth wrote:
> >> On 27.08.2012 15:33, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
> >>> Am Monday 23 March 2009 15:51:24 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
> >>>> Rainer Stratmann wrote on ma, 23 mrt 2009:
> >>>>> Would this be possible?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> // get access to the data of file.dat
> >>>>> // have 1 executable file with containing all the data
> >>>>>
> >>>>> {$ir file.dat mydata} // include resource or similar
> >>>>>
> >>>>> // fpc compiler makes this
> >>>>> const
> >>>>>   mydata : array[ 0 .. 4 ] of byte =
> >>>>>   ($45,$44,$63,$76,$55); // file data
> >>>>
> >>>> FPC includes a data2inc utility that you can use for this.
> >>>
> >>> http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Incbin.html#Incbin
> >>> http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as
> >>
> >> @Jonas: Is it just me or am I missing some mails here?
> >
> > It's simply that some people are suddenly replying to mails from 23 March
> > 2009 for some reason.
>
> Ah ha! That explains it. I wasn't a list member back then. :)

It is one of my great ideas to simplify programming.
But every time Jonas reflexively look in his arsenal of tools and try to shot 
me down with them.

> (I should have looked at the date of the quote from you...)