[mypyc] Add support for C string literals in the IR #19383
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Previously only Python str and bytes literals were supported, but sometimes we want zero-terminated C string literals instead. They don't need to be allocated from heap and are usually stored in a read-only data section, so they are more efficient in some use cases.
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Previously only Python str and bytes literals were supported, but
sometimes we want zero-terminated C string literals instead. They
don't need to be allocated from the heap and are usually stored in a
read-only data section, so they are more efficient in some use cases.
These will be useful for a feature I'm working on.