That’s neat - Borland C had the same thing with the `emit()` pseudo-function with their C89 compiler. I guess Borland’s compiler writers wanted it more than gcc’s?
ld -r -b binary -o foo_txt.o foo.txt
extern const char _binary_foo_txt_start[]; extern const char _binary_foo_txt_end[]; extern const void *_binary_foo_txt_size;
So you need to write your own declarations (it doesn't generate a header file).
_binary_foo_txt_size is weird and has to be used as: (size_t)&_binary_foo_txt_size
Or use (size_t)(_binary_foo_txt_end - _binary_foo_txt_start) instead.