Ways to clean up C string literals before writing output?

[anp]

This is pretty hard to parse even once you get used to it: b"contents\x00" as *const u8 as *const c_char. One way to reduce the noise while remaining correct would be to rely on a crate that lets you declare a C string literal like cstr-macro.

[rinon]

Going through and triaging old issues. This has been largely taken care of by refactoring passes that clean up the resulting rust code. I'll dig up some details and examples.