[bitc-dev] bug in character decode routines

[Swaroop Sridhar]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:04 -0400, Swaroop Sridhar wrote:
> 
>>Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>>
>>>Swaroop: can you double check whether my recollection of the current
>>>initialization process is right?
>>
>>This is right.
> 
> 
> Do you anticipate any difficulty if we were to switch to using arrays of
> 4-byte characters instead? I cannot recall whether there may have been a
> good reason to duplicate these strings at startup time.

No. But we will also have to set up the length.

Current bitc_string representation is:

runtime/bitc/runtime.h:
   99  typedef struct {
   100    bitc_word_t length;
   101    char s[0];                  // unicode UTF-8!
   102  } bitc_string_t;

Swaroop.