Make the `string` type elements "immutable", akin to `char const *` in C

Allows for extra security and optimization benefits

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin b/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin
index bbf3994cd..6d0b32f48 100644
--- a/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin
+++ b/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ encode_rune :: proc(c: rune) -> ([4]u8, int) {
 	return buf, 4;
 }
 
-decode_rune_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> (rune, int) do return decode_rune(cast([]u8)s);
+decode_rune_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> (rune, int) do return decode_rune(transmute([]u8)s);
 decode_rune :: proc(s: []u8) -> (rune, int) {
 	n := len(s);
 	if n < 1 {
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ decode_rune :: proc(s: []u8) -> (rune, int) {
 
 
 
-decode_last_rune_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> (rune, int) do return decode_last_rune(cast([]u8)s);
+decode_last_rune_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> (rune, int) do return decode_last_rune(transmute([]u8)s);
 decode_last_rune :: proc(s: []u8) -> (rune, int) {
 	r: rune;
 	size: int;
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ valid_string :: proc(s: string) -> bool {
 
 rune_start :: inline proc(b: u8) -> bool do return b&0xc0 != 0x80;
 
-rune_count_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> int do return rune_count(cast([]u8)s);
+rune_count_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> int do return rune_count(transmute([]u8)s);
 rune_count :: proc(s: []u8) -> int {
 	count := 0;
 	n := len(s);