From d6fdae310f2a98ca624c3a77c3aa03b8b3bd393a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 16:02:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add operator char * to hb_nonnull_ptr_t

---
 src/hb-null.hh | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/hb-null.hh b/src/hb-null.hh
index a3f0ea079..c91af1636 100644
--- a/src/hb-null.hh
+++ b/src/hb-null.hh
@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ struct hb_nonnull_ptr_t
   inline const T & operator * (void) const { return *get (); }
   inline T ** operator & (void) { return &v; }
   inline const T ** operator & (void) const { return &v; }
-  template <typename C>
-  inline operator C * (void) { return get (); }
-  template <typename C>
-  inline operator const C * (void) const { return get (); }
+  template <typename C> inline operator C * (void) { return get (); }
+  template <typename C> inline operator const C * (void) const { return get (); }
+  inline operator char * (void) { return (char *) get (); }
+  inline operator const char * (void) const { return (const char *) get (); }
   inline T * get (void) { return v ? v : const_cast<T *> (&Null(T)); }
   inline const T * get (void) const { return v ? v : const_cast<T *> (&Null(T)); }
   inline T * get_raw (void) { return v; }