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RailsUser2014on Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program

@Someone1234 You're kidding? Try adding a new pull request in C and tell them that you want to add a text inside every compiled c program because "it's funny". I'm not sure they'll agree with you.

RailsUser2014on Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program

@Steuard Fun? I neither expect a compiler to be funny nor add data I don't know about.

RailsUser2014on Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program

Here is the commit responsible for that:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/51abdee5f1ad9326713...

What's the point of adding this very long text?

RailsUser2014on Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program

What's the point of adding that to any program?

RailsUser2014on Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program

It's a paragram from this book: H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection. (search for it in google books)