@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 Why would you ever need this
 
--   [Documentation](https://pointerspy.netlify.app/)
+-   [Documentation](https://pointers.zintensity.dev/)
 -   [Source](https://github.com/ZeroIntensity/pointers.py)
 -   [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/pointers.py)
 
 
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ def my_function(a: str, b: str, c: Pointer):  # must be type hinted as Pointer t
 my_function('a', 'b', 'c')
 ```
 
-This will be fine for most people, but it hsa removes type safety on the target function. If you don't care about type safety in your code, then don't worry about this, but if you do, then there are alternatives.
+This will be fine for most people, but it removes type safety on the target function. If you don't care about type safety in your code, then don't worry about this, but if you do, then there are alternatives.
 
 The first alternative is `decay_annotated`, which decays parameters hinted as `Annotated[T, Pointer]` to a pointer.
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def my_function(a: str, b: str, c: Annotated[str, Pointer]):
     print(a, b, ~c)  # type checker error!
 ```
 
-The solution is to use `decay_wrapped`, which takes the caller function as a paremeter:
+The solution is to use `decay_wrapped`, which takes a fake function as a parameter:
 
 ```py
 from pointers import decay_wrapped, Pointer
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def my_function(a: str, b: str, c: Pointer[str]):
 my_function('a', 'b', 'c')  # works just fine, type checker things c takes a string
 ```
 
-It can be broken pretty easily though:
+If the wrapper doesn't match, things won't work properly:
 
 ```py
 from pointers import decay_wrapped, Pointer
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "typing_extensions",
 ]
-version = "2.2.0-beta"
+version = "2.2.0"
 
 [project.urls]
 Documentation = "https://pointers.zintensity.dev"
 
@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ static PyObject* handle(PyObject* self, PyObject* args) {
 
         PyErr_Format(
             PyExc_RuntimeError,
-            "%s occured during execution of %S",
-            val == 1 ? "segment violation" : "python aborted",
+            "segment violation occured during execution of %S",
             name
         );
 
 
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
     TypedCPointer, VoidPointer, array, cast, to_c_ptr, to_struct_ptr, to_voidp
 )
 from .calloc import AllocatedArrayPointer, calloc
-from .constants import NULL, Nullable, handle, raw_type, struct_cast
 from .custom_binding import binding, binds
 from .decay import decay, decay_annotated, decay_wrapped
 from .exceptions import (
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@
 from .object_pointer import Pointer, to_ptr
 from .std_structs import DivT, Lconv, LDivT, Tm
 from .structure import Struct, StructPointer
+from .util import NULL, Nullable, handle, raw_type, struct_cast
 
-__version__ = "2.2.0-beta"
+__version__ = "2.2.0"
 __license__ = "MIT"
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 from _pointers import add_ref, remove_ref
 
 from ._utils import deref, force_set_attr, move_to_mem
-from .constants import NULL, Nullable, handle
 from .exceptions import DereferenceError, FreedMemoryError, NullPointerError
+from .util import NULL, Nullable, handle
 
 __all__ = (
     "BasePointer",
 
@@ -21,14 +21,15 @@
 from .exceptions import InvalidBindingParameter
 from .std_structs import STRUCT_MAP, DivT, Lconv, LDivT, Tm
 from .structure import StructPointer
+from .util import handle
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .structure import Struct
 
 T = TypeVar("T")
 
-PointerLike = Union[TypedCPointer[T], VoidPointer, None]
-StringLike = Union[str, bytes, VoidPointer, TypedCPointer[bytes]]
+PointerLike = Optional[Union[TypedCPointer[T], VoidPointer]]
+StringLike = Optional[Union[str, bytes, VoidPointer, TypedCPointer[bytes]]]
 Format = Union[StringLike, PointerLike]
 TypedPtr = Optional[PointerLike[T]]
 PyCFuncPtrType = type(ctypes.CFUNCTYPE(None))
@@ -330,6 +331,7 @@ def wrapper(*args):
     return _CFuncTransport(wrapper, fn)
 
 
+@handle
 def binding_base(
     fn: "ctypes._NamedFuncPointer",
     *args,
@@ -380,7 +382,7 @@ def binding_base(
 
 
 def make_string(data: StringLike) -> Union[bytes, ctypes.c_char_p]:
-    if type(data) not in {VoidPointer, str, bytes, TypedCPointer}:
+    if (type(data) not in {VoidPointer, str, bytes, TypedCPointer}) and data:
         raise InvalidBindingParameter(
             f"expected a string-like object, got {repr(data)}"  # noqa
         )
@@ -404,6 +406,9 @@ def make_string(data: StringLike) -> Union[bytes, ctypes.c_char_p]:
     if isinstance(data, str):
         return data.encode()
 
+    if not data:
+        data = ctypes.c_char_p(None)  # type: ignore
+
     assert isinstance(data, ctypes.c_char_p), f"{data} is not a char*"
     return data
 
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 from ._utils import get_mapped, map_type
 from .base_pointers import BaseCPointer, IterDereferencable, Typed
-from .constants import handle
+from .util import handle
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .structure import Struct, StructPointer
 
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 from ._cstd import c_calloc, c_free
 from .base_pointers import BaseAllocatedPointer
-from .constants import handle
 from .exceptions import AllocationError
+from .util import handle
 
 __all__ = ("AllocatedArrayPointer", "calloc")
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ classifiers = [
23	23	dependencies = [
24	24	"typing_extensions",
25	25	]
26		- version = "2.2.0-beta"
	26	+ version = "2.2.0"
27	27
28	28	[project.urls]
29	29	Documentation = "https://pointers.zintensity.dev"