From: Alexis Laferrière <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:57:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Partial Revert "compiler: Changed types of Char to uint32_t and NativeString to unsig... 
X-Git-Tag: v0.7.6~51^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://nitlanguage.org?ds=sidebyside

Partial Revert "compiler: Changed types of Char to uint32_t and NativeString to unsigned char*"

This reverts commit 6b52ea3d5ca77dbcc6edbbf71c1aa9419a019bac.

Signed-off-by: Alexis Laferrière <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
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diff --git a/lib/cpp.nit b/lib/cpp.nit
index c64ae33..a2896d3 100644
--- a/lib/cpp.nit
+++ b/lib/cpp.nit
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ end
 redef class NativeString
 	# Get `self` as a `CppString`
 	fun to_cpp_string(length: Int): CppString in "C++" `{
-		return new std::string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(self), length);
+		return new std::string(self, length);
 	`}
 end
diff --git a/src/nitni/nitni_base.nit b/src/nitni/nitni_base.nit
index f5cccc0..23c72d8 100644
--- a/src/nitni/nitni_base.nit
+++ b/src/nitni/nitni_base.nit
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ redef class MClassType
 		if name == "Float" then return "double"
 		if name == "Int" then return "long"
 		if name == "Byte" then return "unsigned char"
-		if name == "NativeString" then return "unsigned char*"
+		if name == "NativeString" then return "char*"
 		if mclass.kind == extern_kind then
 			var ctype = mclass.ctype
 			assert ctype != null
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ redef class MClassType
 		if name == "Float" then return "double"
 		if name == "Int" then return "long"
 		if name == "Byte" then return "unsigned char"
-		if name == "NativeString" then return "unsigned char*"
+		if name == "NativeString" then return "char*"
 		if mclass.kind == extern_kind then return "void*"
 		return super
 	end