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yaml
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r: 3778
b: refs/heads/master
c: 875c462
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: pcwalton

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 91dcc1d054cdf86582bad6b6d343761041a1f5de
+refs/heads/master: 875c4622fba068149a9c635684c644d84cb3e014

trunk/src/lib/ivec.rs

@@ -207,5 +207,11 @@ mod unsafe {
     fn copy_from_buf[T](&mutable T[] v, *T ptr, uint count) {
         ret rustrt::ivec_copy_from_buf_shared(v, ptr, count);
     }
+
+    fn from_buf[T](*T ptr, uint bytes) -> T[] {
+        auto v = ~[];
+        copy_from_buf(v, ptr, bytes);
+        ret v;
+    }
 }
 

trunk/src/lib/str.rs

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ export connect;
 export connect_ivec;
 export to_upper;
 export safe_slice;
+export bytes_ivec;
 
 native "rust" mod rustrt {
     type sbuf;
@@ -163,6 +164,12 @@ fn buf(str s) -> sbuf { ret rustrt::str_buf(s); }
 
 fn bytes(str s) -> vec[u8] { ret rustrt::str_vec(s); }
 
+fn bytes_ivec(str s) -> u8[] {
+    auto sbuffer = buf(s);
+    auto ptr = unsafe::reinterpret_cast(sbuffer);
+    ret ivec::unsafe::from_buf(ptr, byte_len(s));
+}
+
 fn from_bytes(vec[u8] v) -> str { ret rustrt::str_from_vec(v); }