Yes, you could achive , with great pain and boilerplate code, the same result with those. Right now I am using a pre-processing stage and it does what I want, but it’s a separate stage.

The point was to have this built into the language, ‘idiomatically c++’ so to speak.

Processing files and filesystems can be useful for all kinds of scenarios, tooling for CI/CD pipelines, etc . It would be nice if the standard allowed a ‘build-in’ language feature for this, that’s the gist of it.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, at 16:15, Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals wrote:
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> How much different is it in power from a C23 #embed?
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> Both feature that certain files, the ones which the implementation allows, can be fully (binarily) read at compile time.
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> - the filepath can be created at runtime -> better hiding of the file read read; C23 probably supports macros for the filepath?
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> - the contents can be processed by constexpr functions -> probably the same can be achieved by mixing C23 with C++ constexpr
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> - the files could be read several times -> Denial of Service build; a long build can probably be achieved by other ways
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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> *Von:* Tiago Freire via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
>> *Gesendet:* Di 12.03.2024 15:06
>> *Betreff:* Re: [std-proposals] constexpr support in std::filesystem API
>> *An:* Andrei Grosu <andrei_dg_at_[hidden]>; std-proposals_at_[hidden]; Jonathan Wakely <cxx_at_[hidden]>;
>> *CC:* Tiago Freire <tmiguelf_at_[hidden]>;
>> > That is a straw man argument.
>> > If you had amazon.com as your home it should not have passed code review and merge request, along with whatever security audit tooling your build system should run anyways.
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>> Its not a strawman. A standard is not just for you, it is for everyone. Including people who do open-source projects, and whose working environment isn't as closely monitored as you may think.
>> Even in your closed environment I can think of extremely easy ways to hide malicious constexpr payload to take over your entire company and you wouldn't even notice in a PR.
>> And that's just 5 minutes thinking about the problem, imagine what a motivated malicious actor with enough time and resources could achieve.
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>> And why would I want to do this to begin with?
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