Comment by rleigh

To be completely honest, I find the fact that this was raised by the committee to be really obtuse and unnecessary. The same "complaint" could be raised about #include as well.

If you want to include data from a continuous stream from a device node, then you could just as easily have the data piped into a temporary file of defined size and then #embed that. No need to have the compiler cater for a problem of your own making.

As for the custom data types. It's a byte array. Why not leave any structure you wish to impose on the byte array up to the user. They can cast it to whatever they like. Not sure why that's anything to do with the #embed functionality.

Both these things seem to be massive overthinking on the part of the committee members. I'm glad I'm not participating, and I really do thank the author for their efforts there. We've needed this for decades, and I'm glad it's got in even if those ridiculous extensions were the compromise needed to get it there.