Crate clucstr

Secure creation of CStr with zero cost. Plugin for rust compiler.

Use

#![feature(plugin)]
#![plugin(clucstr)]

use std::ffi::CStr;

fn main() {
    let c_str = cstr!("cluWorld!!!");
    let c_str_barr = cstr!(b"cluWorld!!!");
    let c_str_b = cstr!(b'A');
}

#![feature(plugin)]
#![plugin(clucstr)]

use std::ffi::CStr;

fn main() {
    println_str(cstr!("cluWorld!!!"));
    //CSTR "cluWorld!!!"
    //CArray [99, 108, 117, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100, 33, 33, 33, 0] 12
    
    println_str(cstr!(b"cluWorld!!!"));
    //CSTR "cluWorld!!!"
    //CArray [99, 108, 117, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100, 33, 33, 33, 0] 12
    
    println_str(cstr!(b'A'));
    //CSTR "A"
    //CArray [65, 0] 2
}


fn println_str(cstr: &CStr) {
    println!("CSTR {:?}", cstr);
    
    let cstr_array = cstr.to_bytes_with_nul();
    println!("CArray {:?} {}", cstr_array, cstr_array.len());
    println!();
}

Panic

#![feature(plugin)]
#![plugin(clucstr)]

use std::ffi::CStr;

fn main() {
    let c_str = cstr!("\0Test_str"); 
    // PANIC! A null byte was found.
    
    let c_str = cstr!(b"\0Test_array"); 
    // PANIC! A null byte was found.
    
    let c_str = cstr!("Test_str\0"); 
    //It is allowed to write since the null byte is at the end.
    
    let c_str = cstr!(b"Test_str\0"); 
    //It is allowed to write since the null byte is at the end.
}

Benchmarking

cstr_macros - old method of converting strings to cstr. Note that in CStr, there is no protection from null bytes.

cstr_plugin - new method for converting strings to cstr.

#![feature(plugin)]
#![plugin(clucstr)]
#![feature(test)]

extern crate test;
use std::ffi::CStr;


#[macro_export]
macro_rules! cstr_macro {
    ($s:expr) => {
        unsafe {
            ::std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(
                concat!($s, "\0") 
                    as *const str  
                    as *const [::std::os::raw::c_char] 
                    as *const ::std::os::raw::c_char
            )
        }
    };
}


#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use test::Bencher;

    #[bench]
    fn cstr_plugin(b: &mut Bencher) {
        b.iter(|| {
        for _a in 0..10 {
            let _cstr0 = cstr!(b"test");
        }		
    });
    }
    #[bench]
    fn cstr_macros(b: &mut Bencher) {
        b.iter(|| {
        for _a in 0..10 {
            let _cstr0 = cstr_macro!("test");
        }
    });
    }
}

running 2 tests

test tests::cstr_macros ... bench: 90 ns/iter (+/- 14)

test tests::cstr_plugin ... bench: 0 ns/iter (+/- 0)

Macros

cstr	Secure creation of CStr with zero cost