It would be easier with actual function signatures.
The GC_ref / GC_unref might only work for --mm:refc, unsure about --mm:arc
I would just use `$myCString` and worry about zero-copy if allocation becomes a
bottleneck that shows up in profiling. As you are using a DB chances are that
IO is the
You can do it with address arithmetic, maybe. You need to know the offset (8?),
subtract that from the `char*` pointer and cast it to `ptr StringDesc`
(pointer) and then create a string from it, strings have a word sized length
and then a payload pointer.
Or something like that, I'm too lazy to
try use
$myCString
Run
Hi,
I wanted to know if it was possible to convert back a cstring to a string.
Specifically, I'm binding to sqlite for user functions and when the user
function returns a string, it provides a cstring as result value and a
destructor callback called when the string is no longer used by sqlite i
