bug#33848: Store references in SBCL-compiled code are "invisible"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> What could have been nice is if there’s a way to mark specific strings
>> as being ASCII, or if there’s a “byte vector” data type compatible with
>> strings, for instance.
>
> Do we know that all strings containing store references will be
> representable in ASCII?

The basename part of /gnu/store/* is guaranteed to be pure ASCII.  Now,
you’re right that file names that come after could be non-ASCII, though
that’s very unlikely.  We’d have to look at concrete examples I guess.

Ludo’.