A TextLiteral.T is a text generated by the compiler. They contain either 8-bit CHAR characters or 16-bit WIDECHAR characters, but not both. These values do not reside in the heap. In spite of the declaration, the contents array is only large enough to hold the literal and its null termination.

UNSAFE INTERFACE TextLiteral;

IMPORT RTHooks, TextClass;

CONST
 (* DIV BITSIZE should not be here! *)
 (* MaxBytes = LAST (INTEGER) DIV BITSIZE (Byte) - 7 - 8 * ORD(BITSIZE(INTEGER) = 64); *)
 MaxBytes = 16_7FFFFFFF DIV BITSIZE (Byte) - 7 - 8 * ORD(BITSIZE(INTEGER) = 64);

TYPE
  T = RTHooks.TextLiteral;
REVEAL
  T = TEXT BRANDED "TextLiteral.T" OBJECT
    cnt : INTEGER;
    buf : ARRAY [0..MaxBytes - 1] OF Byte;
  OVERRIDES
    get_info       := RTHooks.TextLitInfo;
    get_char       := RTHooks.TextLitGetChar;
    get_wide_char  := RTHooks.TextLitGetWideChar;
    get_chars      := RTHooks.TextLitGetChars;
    get_wide_chars := RTHooks.TextLitGetWideChars;
  END;
  (* The array contains the characters of the text followed by a null
     character.  If "cnt" is negative each pair of bytes in "buf"
     is a "WIDECHAR".  Otherwise, each byte of "buf" is a "CHAR". *)

TYPE
  Byte = [0..255];

END TextLiteral.