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authoree7 <45465154+ee7@users.noreply.github.com>2022-08-19 21:40:53 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-08-19 15:40:53 -0400
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downloadNim-e8657c7107761fae7a8b5559df3b88165c238a12.tar.gz
make implicit cstring conversions explicit (#19488)
The Nim manual says that an implicit conversion to cstring will
eventually not be allowed [1]:

    A Nim `string` is implicitly convertible to `cstring` for convenience.

    [...]

    Even though the conversion is implicit, it is not *safe*: The garbage collector
    does not consider a `cstring` to be a root and may collect the underlying
    memory. For this reason, the implicit conversion will be removed in future
    releases of the Nim compiler. Certain idioms like conversion of a `const` string
    to `cstring` are safe and will remain to be allowed.

And from Nim 1.6.0, such a conversion triggers a warning [2]:

    A dangerous implicit conversion to `cstring` now triggers a `[CStringConv]` warning.
    This warning will become an error in future versions! Use an explicit conversion
    like `cstring(x)` in order to silence the warning.

However, some files in this repo produced such a warning. For example,
before this commit, compiling `parsejson.nim` would produce:

    /foo/Nim/lib/pure/parsejson.nim(221, 37) Warning: implicit conversion to 'cstring' from a non-const location: my.buf; this will become a compile time error in the future [CStringConv]
    /foo/Nim/lib/pure/parsejson.nim(231, 39) Warning: implicit conversion to 'cstring' from a non-const location: my.buf; this will become a compile time error in the future [CStringConv]

This commit resolves the most visible `CStringConv` warnings, making the
cstring conversions explicit.

[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/d2318d9ccfe6/doc/manual.md#cstring-type
[2] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/d2318d9ccfe6/changelogs/changelog_1_6_0.md#type-system
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