Fix 076, add 077,078 sentinels and many-item pointers

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Dave Gauer 2021-05-08 18:51:08 -04:00
parent 71e43b0a50
commit 22ac3628a1
7 changed files with 126 additions and 35 deletions

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//
// We were able to get a printable string out of a many-item
// pointer by using a slice to assert a specific length.
//
// But can we ever GO BACK to a sentinel-terminated pointer
// after we've "lost" the sentinel in a coercion?
//
// Yes, we can. Zig's @ptrCast() builtin can do this. Check out
// the signature:
//
// @ptrCast(comptime DestType: type, value: anytype) DestType
//
// See if you can use it to solve the same many-item pointer
// problem, but without needing a length!
//
const print = @import("std").debug.print;
pub fn main() void {
// Again, we've coerced the sentinel-terminated string to a
// many-item pointer, which has no length or sentinel.
const data: [*]const u8 = "Weird Data!";
// Please cast 'data' to 'printable':
const printable: [*:0]const u8 = ???;
print("{s}\n", .{printable});
}