Introduce str_slice runtime function

This reduces the time to execute the new lib-str tests from 1:40ish to a few
seconds and will eventually allow the full lib-sha1 test to run in a
reasonable amount of time. XFAIL lib-str in stage0 - it will run very slowly
until the next snapshot.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/rt/rust_builtin.cpp b/src/rt/rust_builtin.cpp
index 297b9df7d95..bc2c5adde60 100644
--- a/src/rt/rust_builtin.cpp
+++ b/src/rt/rust_builtin.cpp
@@ -226,6 +226,24 @@ str_push_byte(rust_task* task, rust_str* v, size_t byte)
     return v;
 }
 
+extern "C" CDECL rust_str*
+str_slice(rust_task* task, rust_str* v, size_t begin, size_t end)
+{
+    size_t len = end - begin;
+    rust_str *st =
+        vec_alloc_with_data(task,
+                            len + 1, // +1 to fit at least '\0'
+                            len,
+                            1,
+                            len ? v->data + begin : NULL);
+    if (!st) {
+        task->fail(2);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    st->data[st->fill++] = '\0';
+    return st;
+}
+
 extern "C" CDECL char const *
 str_buf(rust_task *task, rust_str *s)
 {