source: bootcd/isolinux/syslinux-6.03/libinstaller/bin2c.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
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##
##   Copyright 1998-2008 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
##
##   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
##   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
##   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 53 Temple Place Ste 330,
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##   (at your option) any later version; incorporated herein by reference.
##
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------

#
# bin2c.pl: binary file to C source converter
#

eval { use bytes; };
eval { binmode STDIN; };

($table_name, $pad) = @ARGV;

if ( !defined($table_name) ) {
    print STDERR "Usage: $0 table_name [pad] < input_file > output_file\n";
    exit 1;
}

$pad = 1 if ($pad < 1);

printf "unsigned char %s[] = {\n", $table_name;

$pos = 0;
$linelen = 8;

$total_len = 0;

while ( ($n = read(STDIN, $data, 4096)) > 0 ) {
    $total_len += $n;
    for ( $i = 0 ; $i < $n ; $i++ ) {
        $byte = substr($data, $i, 1);
        if ( $pos >= $linelen ) {
            print ",\n\t";
            $pos = 0;
        } elsif ( $pos > 0 ) {
            print ", ";
        } else {
            print "\t";
        }
        printf("0x%02x", unpack("C", $byte));
        $pos++;
    }
}

$align = $total_len % $pad;
if ($align != 0) {
    $n = $pad - $align;
    $total_len += $n;
    for ( $i = 0 ; $i < $n ; $i++ ) {
        if ( $pos >= $linelen ) {
            print ",\n\t";
            $pos = 0;
        } elsif ( $pos > 0 ) {
            print ", ";
        } else {
            print "\t";
        }
        print '0x00';
        $pos++;
    }
}

printf "\n};\n\nconst unsigned int %s_len = %u;\n", $table_name, $total_len;

@st = stat STDIN;

printf "\nconst int %s_mtime = %d;\n", $table_name, $st[9];

exit 0;