JuliaLang/julia — pull request #7592 by jakebolewski (2014-07-13 23:58:49+00:00)
Title: remove unnecessary bytestring call for ccall string arguments

Due to https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5677, `bytestring()` is now called for for `String` type arguments in ccall. This removes the remaining explicit bytestring calls in Base for consistency.