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		teakettle42 on March 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Single binary executable packages BeOS/Haiku appends assets to the end of the ELF file with a ToC and some easy-to-use APIs for accessing them. I always wish that’d taken off. I guess AppImage isn’t dissimilar in that it appends a squashfs image to be mounted with FUSE.

immibis on March 2, 2022 [–]

Windows also does this. Linux doesn't, preferring to KISS because with demand paging there's really no reason you can't just put them in your rodata section.

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