Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0
by alganet on Monday June 24, 2024 @04:10AM
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Kind of. It can be read as a single binary, some supported systems will do that. In others, the executable is first parsed as a shell script. There's definitely more to it than a single binary.
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Reminds me of a cool tool I once used, uudecode.com, which was a DOS binary that only used 7-bit characters and could decode uuencoded (base64 predecessor) files. Was useful for getting attachments through e-mail in the face of all kinds of filters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 - "A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files"
The paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 is both a text file and an executable.
Really near.
Also discussed 11 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36821985 (15 comments)