Bug fixes and updates to package_release.ps1

- Incrased size of the defines_map_arena to 256KB
- Various fixes for the parser
- Various fixes for code serialization
- Fix for is_equal member func in Code types
- Fixes for hasthable container
- Added are_equal static func to String type for use against StrC
- Added starts_with functions to String type
- package_release.ps1 now packages all docs (forgot to update it with last release)

project/dependencies/strings.hpp

@@ -11,14 +11,12 @@ struct StrC
 	sw          Len;
 	char const* Ptr;
 
-	operator char const* () const
-	{
-		return Ptr;
-	}
+	operator char const* ()            const { return Ptr; }
+	char const& operator[]( sw index ) const { return Ptr[index]; }
 };
 
-#define cast_to_strc( str ) * rcast( StrC*, str - sizeof(sw) )
-#define txt( text ) StrC { sizeof( text ) - 1, text }
+#define cast_to_strc( str ) * rcast( StrC*, (str) - sizeof(sw) )
+#define txt( text ) StrC { sizeof( text ) - 1, ( text ) }
 
 StrC to_str( char const* str )
 {
@@ -99,6 +97,19 @@ struct String
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	static
+	bool are_equal( String lhs, StrC rhs )
+	{
+		if ( lhs.length() != (rhs.Len) )
+			return false;
+
+		for ( sw idx = 0; idx < lhs.length(); ++idx )
+			if ( lhs[idx] != rhs[idx] )
+				return false;
+
+		return true;
+	}
+
 	bool make_space_for( char const* str, sw add_len );
 
 	bool append( char c )
@@ -197,6 +208,24 @@ struct String
 		return header.Length;
 	}
 
+	b32 starts_with( StrC substring ) const
+	{
+		if (substring.Len > length())
+			return false;
+
+		b32 result = str_compare(Data, substring.Ptr, substring.Len ) == 0;
+		return result;
+	}
+
+	b32 starts_with( String substring ) const
+	{
+		if (substring.length() > length())
+			return false;
+
+		b32 result = str_compare(Data, substring, substring.length() - 1 ) == 0;
+		return result;
+	}
+
 	void skip_line()
 	{
 	#define current (*scanner)