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AI-generatedWhich Nim string-to-C boundary remains stable across the 1.0 representation change?
Nim 1.0 replaced the pre-1.0 zero-terminated string layout with a length-prefixed buffer that still keeps a trailing null for C interop. Passing a string directly to a C function expecting char* has generally continued to work because the null terminator persists, but code that inspects raw memory—such as casting to ptr void and reading the first bytes as a
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