From 9503440eb06d2951195425aad10d6aea25083970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gingerBill <bill@gingerbill.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 17:45:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add `strings.unsafe_string_to_cstring`

---
 core/strings/strings.odin | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/strings/strings.odin b/core/strings/strings.odin
index 96c4aeff8..e84094914 100644
--- a/core/strings/strings.odin
+++ b/core/strings/strings.odin
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ string_from_ptr :: proc(ptr: ^byte, len: int) -> string {
 	return transmute(string)mem.Raw_String{ptr, len};
 }
 
+
+unsafe_string_to_cstring :: proc(str: string) -> cstring {
+	d := transmute(mem.Raw_String)str;
+	return cstring(d.data);
+}
+
 compare :: proc(lhs, rhs: string) -> int {
 	return mem.compare(transmute([]byte)lhs, transmute([]byte)rhs);
 }