+
+ /// isString - This method returns true if this is an array of i8.
+ bool isString() const;
+
+ /// isCString - This method returns true if the array "isString", ends with a
+ /// nul byte, and does not contains any other nul bytes.
+ bool isCString() const;
+
+ /// getAsString - If this array is isString(), then this method returns the
+ /// array as a StringRef. Otherwise, it asserts out.
+ ///
+ StringRef getAsString() const {
+ assert(isString() && "Not a string");
+ return getRawDataValues();
+ }
+
+ /// getAsCString - If this array is isCString(), then this method returns the
+ /// array (without the trailing null byte) as a StringRef. Otherwise, it
+ /// asserts out.
+ ///
+ StringRef getAsCString() const {
+ assert(isCString() && "Isn't a C string");
+ StringRef Str = getAsString();
+ return Str.substr(0, Str.size()-1);
+ }
+
+ /// getRawDataValues - Return the raw, underlying, bytes of this data. Note
+ /// that this is an extremely tricky thing to work with, as it exposes the
+ /// host endianness of the data elements.
+ StringRef getRawDataValues() const;
+