Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonDear Interweb: GCC and Arbitrary Binary Sectionscomputers/gcc-2007-07-13-12-30http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/gcc-2007-07-13-12-30Mono/C has this nice feature where arbitrary files can be linked into the final binary, and you can programmatically access ... Mono/C♯ has this nice feature where arbitrary files can be linked into the final binary, and you can programmatically access them. I'd like to be able to do that in C too, I'm sure it is possible, I just don't know an easy way. I know that if you have a section foo, then ld will create __start_foo and __stop_foo symbols which point to the start and end of the section, so all I really want is an easy way to get ld to use the contents of an arbitrary file (say, ui.xml) as a section.

Anybody know how to do this? Update: thanks to Daniel Jacobowitz for giving enough clues to a working, and clean, solution. I'll blog this shortly.

NP: The Sound Of A Handshake, cLOUDDEAD

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