Re: no code generation for c strings

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:

>> I'm still not sure why your way of doing this produced the desired effect
>> though.
> 
> Possibly because it was in a spec? Yours was in a library-level
> subprogram, so there would have been no need for a related symbol?
> 

No, I mean I don't understand why this:

S : constant char_array := "hello" & char'val(0);

Produces the statically allocated string without using the secondary stack.
I know that using to_c will utilise it. Unsurprised the compiler doesn't
think that string is of type string. I tried something similar without the
end from the ampersand onwards and it complained of different types.