Re: Pre-Scheme static allocation

Thomas Hintz <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015, at 04:44 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:
>> 
>> Thomas Hintz <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > Is it possible for Pre-Scheme to generate static array allocations? I'm
>> > looking for something like:
>> >
>> > char hello[] = "Hello, world.";
>> 
>> You mean:
>> 
>> (define hello "Hello, world.")
>> 
>> ?  (Probably not, but I'm not really sure what you mean.)
>
> That does not seem to do what I want to do.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something with the type inference system or the API.
> Here is an example of what I would like to do:
>
> (unsigned-byte-ref "hello world")

So you want the other direction.  I believe there isn't a operation in
PreScheme currently that does this.  But it should be easy to add a
procedure

string->char-pointer

if you just follow the example of `char-pointer->string`.

But what you're trying to do still seems odd to me - maybe you can
provide a little bit more background on why you're trying to do this?
(I.e. why not just `(string-ref "hello-world" 0)`.)

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Regards,
Mike