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diff --git a/generic/tclInt.h b/generic/tclInt.h index 00b246b..2353450 100644 --- a/generic/tclInt.h +++ b/generic/tclInt.h @@ -3668,6 +3668,24 @@ MODULE_SCOPE void TclDbInitNewObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, CONST char *file, /* *---------------------------------------------------------------- + * Macro that encapsulates the logic that determines when it is safe to + * interpret a string as a byte array directly. In summary, the object must be + * a byte array and must not have a string representation (as the operations + * that it is used in are defined on strings, not byte arrays). Theoretically + * it is possible to also be efficient in the case where the object's bytes + * field is filled by generation from the byte array (c.f. list canonicality) + * but we don't do that at the moment since this is purely about efficiency. + * The ANSI C "prototype" for this macro is: + * + * MODULE_SCOPE int TclIsPureByteArray(Tcl_Obj *objPtr); + *---------------------------------------------------------------- + */ + +#define TclIsPureByteArray(objPtr) \ + (((objPtr)->typePtr==&tclByteArrayType) && ((objPtr)->bytes==NULL)) + +/* + *---------------------------------------------------------------- * Macro used by the Tcl core to compare Unicode strings. On big-endian * systems we can use the more efficient memcmp, but this would not be * lexically correct on little-endian systems. The ANSI C "prototype" for |