From 70dc0c15fd244bdc4a769b0d91b50ecc210bca65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gingerBill <bill@gingerbill.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:43:35 +0100
Subject: Improve type hint for #load to allow for string types

---
 src/check_builtin.cpp | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/check_builtin.cpp')

diff --git a/src/check_builtin.cpp b/src/check_builtin.cpp
index b0c7f8d4b..122d3a461 100644
--- a/src/check_builtin.cpp
+++ b/src/check_builtin.cpp
@@ -1196,10 +1196,14 @@ LoadDirectiveResult check_load_directive(CheckerContext *c, Operand *operand, As
 
 	GB_ASSERT(o.value.kind == ExactValue_String);
 
+	operand->type = t_u8_slice;
+	if (type_hint && is_type_string(type_hint)) {
+		operand->type = type_hint;
+	}
+	operand->mode = Addressing_Constant;
+
 	LoadFileCache *cache = nullptr;
 	if (cache_load_file_directive(c, call, o.value.value_string, err_on_not_found, &cache)) {
-		operand->type = t_u8_slice;
-		operand->mode = Addressing_Constant;
 		operand->value = exact_value_string(cache->data);
 		return LoadDirective_Success;
 	}
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