Hi All, https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall.html#Passing_and_returning_values
Did anyone else discover the mistake, hopefully not the hard way like I did. Anyone get weird gibberish printed out like I did? my$string="FOO"; # The lifetime of this variable must be equal to the required lifetime of # the data passed to the C function. my$array=CArray[uint8].new($string.encode.list);v The mistake is that "C" strings are terminated by a chr(0) -- in "C" terms chr(0) is called a nul or 0x00. If you don't terminate your C string, the reading functions keep careening until it finds a chr(0). You have to tack a chr(0) onto the end. my$array=CArray[uint8].new($string.encode.list); $array [$array.elems] = 0; $array should be 70 79 70 0 not 70 79 79 You can test this with `say "$array"` (include the quotes). Maybe JJ will pick up on this and get it fixed. -T
