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author | ee7 <45465154+ee7@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-08-19 21:40:53 +0200 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-08-19 15:40:53 -0400 |
commit | e8657c7107761fae7a8b5559df3b88165c238a12 (patch) | |
tree | ba65f39bf4fd3dd14fb9f695d4d6c01aa9c37ae2 /tools/heapdumprepl.nim | |
parent | 7fe6dedb623b9bc781df9e68b53e354c73034090 (diff) | |
download | Nim-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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