Universal Binary const data sharing resources

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hotchip OP

Created Sep ’20

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In a C++ application, I use a lot "static const char" to include data directly inside the binary.

Code Block static const unsigned char temp6[] = { 3,49,43,113,35,91,2,233,99,119,212 ....

From the size of the files, I get the impression that the data is inserted once for each architecture (arm64/x64), i.e. it exists twice.

Is there anyway to share data directly between architectures, without the need to use extra shared resource files.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’20

I get the impression that the data is inserted once for each
architecture

Correct.

Is there anyway to share data directly between architectures

The obvious way to do this is to put the data in a resource, which is easily accessible from both architectures. Why don’t you want to do that? Because the alternatives are a lot less pleasant.

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