From ff275e369c9f587d462481d49a7dec963d2f8d1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chriseth <chris@ethereum.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:31:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow constant byte arrays.

---
 Changelog.md                         | 1 +
 libsolidity/analysis/TypeChecker.cpp | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 206303839..f1b1a19cf 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Features:
 Bugfixes:
  * ABI JSON: Include all overloaded events.
  * Parser: Crash fix related to parseTypeName.
+ * Type Checker: Allow constant byte arrays.
 
 ### 0.4.16 (2017-08-24)
 
diff --git a/libsolidity/analysis/TypeChecker.cpp b/libsolidity/analysis/TypeChecker.cpp
index 030c8f6be..40add37ee 100644
--- a/libsolidity/analysis/TypeChecker.cpp
+++ b/libsolidity/analysis/TypeChecker.cpp
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ bool TypeChecker::visit(VariableDeclaration const& _variable)
 		{
 			bool allowed = false;
 			if (auto arrayType = dynamic_cast<ArrayType const*>(_variable.type().get()))
-				allowed = arrayType->isString();
+				allowed = arrayType->isByteArray();
 			if (!allowed)
 				m_errorReporter.typeError(_variable.location(), "Constants of non-value type not yet implemented.");
 		}