Re: Linux v2.5.46

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> 
> > Why not just hexdump the thing into an array of char foo.c file,
> > then compile that.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't think there's any toolchain which doesn't support the 
> current way when given the right flags, so that looks faster and cleaner 
> to me.

Especially since we expect the array to be potentially megabytes in the 
end (especially if somebody wants to make a bootable CD using this), and 
at least traditional gcc's would do horrible O(n^2) things with big 
initialized arrays. 

Much better to just tell the tools it is a blob.

		Linus