Introduce CArray.of_string and expand the string view documentation
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April 3, 2018 16:49
Having a function to make an ocaml string into a managed CArray to pass to the c bindings could make it clearer that string views are not always the best ways to deal with strings when interfacing with C Signed-off-by: Marcello Seri <marcello.seri@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcello Seri <marcello.seri@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcello Seri <marcello.seri@citrix.com>
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The android build failure seems to be independent of this PR |
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Thank you for the contribution, @mseri! I think this is a useful addition. |
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I have already expanded a bit the comments on the FAQ. Feel free to close this PR if you think it's superfluous, but I thought that passing strings in C structure fields and similar type of bindings are probably not that uncommon, and it may be useful to be hinted that
stringviews are not the right thing both by the documentation and by the presence of a function likeCArray.of_string.