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Thus proving that APEs are not viable, the end.

The assumption that constants are constants is a sound assumption, and I highly doubt many would be willing to rewrite the world to make some "clever hack" work.




> I highly doubt many would be willing to rewrite the world to make some "clever hack" work.

I specifically wanted to avoid rewriting the world in order to port established codebases like git/curl to Cosmopolitan Libc.

My goal with this gcc patch was to answer the question: "what is the minimum amount of source code I would have to manually change in order to port software to Cosmopolitan Libc?". As we find out, sometimes we don't have to change anything to compile code for an Actually Portable Executable -- just do the usual ./configure && make, and a small `objcopy` command at the end to create the APE.




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