Turning this into an inline assembler

[Myriachan]

This project is silly and I love it. I have a silly idea of my own: turning this into a kind of inline assembler.

Since you can convert assembly code to a byte array at compile-time, why not combine it with this trick? (Example is x86-32 / x86-64 MSVC; other compilers and platforms have similar ways to do this.)

#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdint>

#pragma code_seg(push)
#pragma code_seg(".text$MEOW")  // declare segment so we can use it
#pragma code_seg(pop)
__declspec(allocate(".text$MEOW"))
extern const std::uint8_t g_return1234[] =
{
    0xB8, 0xD2, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00,    // mov eax, 1234
    0xC3    // ret
};

int main()
{
    std::printf("%d\n", (*(int (*)()) (std::uintptr_t) g_return1234)());
}

Side note: the need for the std::uintptr_t cast is actually a flaw in the C++ Standard that I've brought up as a defect in the specification. The Standard says reinterpret_cast cannot remove const, but const on a function pointer makes no sense. Some compilers allow casting a const array to function pointer type, and some don't.