lang: introduce cstring — the C-boundary string (Odin model)

cstring is ONE pointer to a null-terminated u8 buffer, C's char*: thin
(8 bytes, no length; cstring_len walks to the terminator), crossing
#foreign boundaries verbatim in both directions, with ?cstring as the
nullable case lowering to the same bare pointer (null = absent).

Conversion discipline mirrors Odin: a string LITERAL coerces implicitly
(its bytes are terminated constants); any other string is rejected with
a diagnostic naming to_cstring (it may be an unterminated view); and
cstring never coerces to string implicitly — from_cstring(c) is the
explicit zero-copy view, pricing the strlen.

Plumbing: TypeId/TypeInfo builtin slot 18 (first_user 19), name
classifiers, size/align/name tables, LLVM ptr lowering, the ?T pointer
niche, the xx pointer ladder, the literal-gated coercion plan
(isConstString + data_ptr), and the reserved-spelling set. std gains
cstring_len/from_cstring/to_cstring (fmt.sx, re-exported); the old
cstring(size) allocator helper is renamed alloc_string everywhere;
getenv migrates to (name: cstring) -> ?cstring as the canonical user
and env() drops its manual strlen/memcpy.

Pinned: examples/1222 (FFI both directions, literal coercion,
?cstring null paths, round trip) and examples/1173 (both coercion
diagnostics); FAIL pre-feature. The alloc_string rename + getenv
signature shift the .ir snapshots — regenerated. zig build test
426/426; run_examples 604/604.

Spec: reserved spelling + cstring section + C-interop rows.
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2026-06-12 14:50:53 +03:00
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@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ bundle_main :: () -> bool {
// buffer for libc / `[:0]u8` callees. Allocated from
// `context.allocator` like the rest of the bundling stage.
str_to_cstr :: (s: string) -> [:0]u8 {
buf := cstring(s.len);
buf := alloc_string(s.len);
memcpy(buf.ptr, s.ptr, s.len);
buf
}
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ MANIFEST, pkg_esc, lib_esc, lib_esc, lib_esc)
// `co/swipelab/sxchess/SxApp` → `co.swipelab.sxchess.SxApp`.
slash_to_dot :: (path: string) -> string {
buf := cstring(path.len);
buf := alloc_string(path.len);
i := 0;
while i < path.len {
c := path[i];