So I am wrapping some C libraries in Julia, and noticed that Cchar maps to Int8, whereas Cstring has an eltype of UInt8, calling pointer(some_cstring) returns a Ptr{UInt8}. This inconsistency seems rather odd. Furthermore, the documentation for Cstring states that “A C-style string composed of the n…

Cchar != eltype(Cstring)

StefanKarpinski March 9, 2019, 4:10pm 2

Probably just an oversight. Would you mind filing an issue?

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