fix: array var-args decay to pointers #1560
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Unsized variadic arguments of type
STRINGandARRAYnow decay to pointers of the underlying type as per the C specification.Where previously we had to explicitly call
REForADR, e.g.printf('String: %s', REF(myString));which would result in
%call = call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([11 x i8], [11 x i8]* @utf08_literal_0, i32 0, i32 0), [81 x i8]* %myString)we can now just pass the string directly:
printf('String: %s',myString);Interestingly enough, since we previously passed a pointer to an array when calling
REF, this is not a breaking change. Both approaches work, at least forprintf.