primitive (byte) string literal with length?

[Sylvain Henry]

Hi,

You can use cstringLength# which has a constant-folding rules for literals. That's what we use in GHC to build FastString literals.

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Le 24 août 2021 à 06:34, à 06:34, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org> a écrit:
>
>Is there any GHC syntax for constructing a primitive string literal
>with a known (not hand coded) byte count?
>With `"some bytes"#` I get just the `Addr#` pointer, but not the size.
>
>If there's nothing available, would it be reasonable to introduce a new
>syntax?
>Perhaps:
>
>	"some bytes"## :: (# Addr#, Int# #)
>
>-- 
>	Viktor.
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