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diff --git a/doc/manual/types.txt b/doc/manual/types.txt index 1e2dc857f..d6495dbc3 100644 --- a/doc/manual/types.txt +++ b/doc/manual/types.txt @@ -390,7 +390,10 @@ i-th *unichar*. The iterator ``runes`` from the `unicode module cstring type ------------ -The ``cstring`` type represents a pointer to a zero-terminated char array + +The ``cstring`` type meaning `compatible string` is the native representation +of a string for the compilation backend. For the C backend the ``cstring`` type +represents a pointer to a zero-terminated char array compatible to the type ``char*`` in Ansi C. Its primary purpose lies in easy interfacing with C. The index operation ``s[i]`` means the i-th *char* of ``s``; however no bounds checking for ``cstring`` is performed making the @@ -421,7 +424,6 @@ string from a cstring: var cstr: cstring = str var newstr: string = $cstr - Structured types ---------------- A variable of a structured type can hold multiple values at the same |