[PATCH] Add support for binary includes.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri Feb 22 17:05:58 EST 2008


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> A property's data can be populated with a file's contents
>  as follows:
>
>  node {
>         prop = /incbin/("path/to/data");
>  };
>
>  A subset of a file can be included by passing start and size parameters.
>  For example, to include bytes 8 through 23:
>
>  node {
>         prop = /incbin/("path/to/data", 8, 16);
>  };


Can I ask; what is the intended usage of such a thing?  How large
would a typical binary blob be?

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.



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