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#preprocessor
Baking a file into a binary has meant a build step forever: xxd -i, a generated header, a CMake custom command that drifts. C++26 adopts C23's #embed, so a file becomes a literal the compiler reads at translation time. No codegen, no glue. Here it is running on Compiler Explorer.
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