From 6b5ea011e76de3f82ca2b88e1b86161e98448ae8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gingerBill <bill@gingerbill.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 18:06:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add `strings.ptr_from_string`

---
 build.bat                 | 2 +-
 core/strings/strings.odin | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/build.bat b/build.bat
index b95e8a2ab..5615a557d 100644
--- a/build.bat
+++ b/build.bat
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ del *.ilk > NUL 2> NUL
 
 cl %compiler_settings% "src\main.cpp" ^
 	/link %linker_settings% -OUT:%exe_name% ^
-	&& odin run examples/demo/demo.odin
+	&& odin build examples/demo/demo.odin -keep-temp-files
 
 del *.obj > NUL 2> NUL
 
diff --git a/core/strings/strings.odin b/core/strings/strings.odin
index e84094914..6e004993a 100644
--- a/core/strings/strings.odin
+++ b/core/strings/strings.odin
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ string_from_ptr :: proc(ptr: ^byte, len: int) -> string {
 	return transmute(string)mem.Raw_String{ptr, len};
 }
 
+ptr_from_string :: proc(str: string) -> ^byte {
+	d := transmute(mem.Raw_String)str;
+	return d.data;
+}
 
 unsafe_string_to_cstring :: proc(str: string) -> cstring {
 	d := transmute(mem.Raw_String)str;