Relationship to C23/C++26 #embed and compatibility?

[forderud]

First, thanks for sharing a very useful project!

The incbin project seem conceptually similar to #embed that was introduced in C23 and will later be included in C++26. I'm therefore wondering if this relationship could be documented?

Also, could it be considered to somehow adapt the project to automatically utilize #embed instead of inline assembly "under the hood" if the compiler is sufficiently modern?

[bftjoe]

Also, could it be considered to somehow adapt the project to automatically utilize #embed instead of inline assembly "under the hood" if the compiler is sufficiently modern?

I might try to implement this.

[bftjoe]

I tried using GitHub Copilot to implement this, but it says: Quick finding: macros cannot produce new preprocessor directives, so INCBIN cannot automatically expand into a #embed "file" line at compile time even when __cpp_pp_embed is defined.

Unfortunately, this is not possible unless the AI is wrong.