Add peekCString, withCString for converting NUL terminated C strings #254
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Since NUL-terminated CString is much more common in foreign APIs than CStringLen, one should not have to manually build these functions out of `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` (and perhaps get it wrong, like I did in jgm/cmark-hs#13). While here, document that `withCStringLen` is O(n) as well. Fixes haskell#32. Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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| withCString :: Text -> (CString -> IO a) -> IO a | ||
| withCString t act = useAsCString (encodeUtf8 t) act |
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Since text-2 this does redundant copying.
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| -- @since 1.2.5.0 | ||
| withCString :: Text -> (CString -> IO a) -> IO a | ||
| withCString t act = useAsCString (encodeUtf8 t) act |
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Since text-2 this does redundant copying.
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It's redundant in both. encodeUtf8 creates a bytestring, which can be used unsafely, as nothing else refers to it.
In text-2.0 one could have unsafe withCString (or just withCStringLen, as there is no NUL at the end) variants though, which would just pass the Ptr to ByteArray contents.
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Scrap that. text ByteArray's are not (always) pinned, so sometimes copying is unavoidable.
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At least one round of memcpy is unavoidable unless the byte array in Text has that final null.
Since NUL-terminated
CStringis much more common in foreign APIs thanCStringLen, one should not have to manually build these functions out ofpeekCStringLen,withCStringLen(and perhaps get it wrong, like I did in jgm/cmark-hs#13).While here, document that
peekCStringLen,withCStringLenare O(n) as well.Fixes #32.