Okay, hear me out.

The game hardcodes all of its game data into .c files, but it still has an in-game editor: when the edits are saved, the game serializes the updated data out into C code -- or alternatively some data file that is #embed'd into the source -- effectively overwriting the existing hardcoded data.

This is stupid as hell, right?

(I'm gonna do it anyway.)

@thephd Yes please!

I've really enjoyed your writing on the different C proposals (#embed and defer come to mind) so you'll have at least one reader :)

Very fun reading comments like "Björkus is just trying to C++-ify C" and the evidence presented is a bunch of C-exclusive things I'm doing that C++ doesn't have.

Fun to see accusations of not tamping down on undefined behavior when there's an entire "Slay Earthly Demons" series. I am even writing papers to do things like stop relying on implementation-defined/undefined behavior of the builtins for bit intrinsics (all accepted into C23 and C2y now), I am only person who's trying to stop spreading the array-style undefined behavior to more places (we recently accepted a proposal to add that undefined behavior into _Generic match now and I have to retroactively fix it) and I stood my ground against several vendors when they wanted Undefined Behavior in #embed if it didn't get used inside of an array initializer to prevent more UB from showing up during preprocessing.

At some point I just have to realize that the attitude of C is detached from the actual work we're doing in C. Maybe I can write an article to correct those perceptions but it's a lot of work and damn I've got a lot of stuff to do, constantly trying to just say "no that's wrong, man, are you even paying attention?" is kind of annoying.

I just sat down to implement yet another "png2h" utility when I remembered that I'm using clang and C23 and that I can just use #embed and holy hell that's nice.

Happy New Year, specifically to @thephd !

@dotstdy @oblomov There is an interesting point here that I think is missing (which has a connection to IE in the Microsoft way). MSVC was originally not complaint even closely to C++98 but after many years of competition from clang and GCC (and ICC/EDG), MSVC is now inline with C++17 and even gaining support for c++20 and C++23/26 support.
Having a standard forced finally MSVC to follow the rest as developers started to have something else to use.

Now on the C side of things, things are slightly different. This is more due to Microsoft view that less Windows developers care about C and its features that is just specific to C. E.g. VLA support is not going to be ever implemented for MSVC (unless added to C++). #embed is being added because it is needed for C++ support.
Basically if a feature is added to the C++ standard from C, then it will be done for MSVC.
I am not sure if _BitInt support will ever be added to C++; though clang already implements it but GCC does not. I don't think there is a C++ proposal adding it yet; I have not seen one.

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@Gaelan @mcc ooo yes I like this one, something produced entirely by the preprocessor and #embed statements

@halcy its just occurred to me maybe you could embed files on a virtual filesystem. like instead of suffix(, 0) why not just add another #embed "/dev/zero" limit(1)

@jk Like you can #embed a lil file with some #defines and then #embed a shader right afterwards, to share those defines between two shaders! Or to statically create shader variants! It‘s almost like having an include mechanism without having to bother with having an include mechanism!

anyway. psa. when you use the new and exciting #embed directive for the first time to put a file in your favorite static const char array, remember to use 'suffix(, 0)' or your excitement will turn into twenty minutes of confusion

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#misskey 自己写死了很多 #embed 的参数，没法自定义各种模块的显示，也不好自定义宽度，为了能放到blog里面只能强行rescale凑合了。如果直接改embed前端可能可以搞定，但是以后和上游的同步更新需要维护就很烦了。

@shac I’m generally thinking that text-based metaprogramming is outdated. constexpr should be able to do the job, especially since “#embed” in C++26.

Clang bytecode interpreter update
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/15/clang-bytecode-interpreter-update#
recent improvements made to the Clang bytecode interpreter, including performance optimizations, libc++ testing, and the `#embed` benchmark

@equinox @thephd The interesting part of GCC's design with respect to C preprocessor, it is it in its own library with callbacks for error reporting and a few other things.

yes that would be useful thing to have because I always forget the `\` too, especially for large macros

The other useful thing is `#embed` from a macro so you can do stuff like:
`#define myembed(a) #embed "path"/ a ... `.

Clang bytecode interpreter update It’s October again, so let me tell you what happened with the clang bytecode interpreter this year. In case this is the first you’ve encountered this topic: This is a project for a bytecode interpreter in clang to evaluate constant expressions at compile time. This work is already available in all recent clang versions when -fexperimental-new-constant-interpreter […] https://whalers.ir/blog/clang-bytecode-interpreter-update/11486/ ##embed