Andreas Marth wrote:
type BSTR8 = Ptr Word8createBSTR8 :: String -> IO BSTR8 createBSTR8 s = do let len :: Word32 = fromIntegral (length s) low_l :: Word8 = fromIntegral (len .&. 0xFFFF) low_h :: Word8 = fromIntegral (shiftR len 8 .&. 0xFFFF) high_l :: Word8 = fromIntegral (shiftR len 16 .&. 0xFFFF) high_h :: Word8 = fromIntegral (shiftR len 24 .&. 0xFFFF) arr <- newArray ([low_l,low_h,high_l,high_h] ++ map (fromIntegral . fromEnum) s ++ [0]) return $! plusPtr arr 4
Use SysAllocString... family. Also, remember they (by convention) have to be released from the client side.
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