Crate c_str_macro

A macro to produce C-compatible string data from literals.

In Rust code using FFI bindings, it is often necessary to pass in a static constant string that must follow the C string format, i.e. be terminated with a 0 byte. Rust string literals, unlike in C or C++, do not translate to implicitly null-terminated string data, so the terminating "\0" has to be explicitly present to make the string safe to pass to a C API. This is kludgy and can easily be forgotten.

To alleviate this issue, this crate provides the c_str! macro that takes a Rust string literal, appends a terminating 0 byte, and casts the output value to a std::ffi::CStr reference.

Macros

• c_str
  Produce a CStr reference out of a static string literal.