fix: let static_assert fail with the provided message

compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/errors.rs

@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ pub enum RuntimeError {
     StaticAssertDynamicMessage { call_stack: CallStack },
     #[error("Argument is dynamic")]
     StaticAssertDynamicPredicate { call_stack: CallStack },
-    #[error("Argument is false")]
-    StaticAssertFailed { call_stack: CallStack },
+    #[error("{message}")]
+    StaticAssertFailed { message: String, call_stack: CallStack },
     #[error("Nested slices, i.e. slices within an array or slice, are not supported")]
     NestedSlice { call_stack: CallStack },
     #[error("Big Integer modulus do no match")]
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ impl RuntimeError {
             | RuntimeError::AssertConstantFailed { call_stack }
             | RuntimeError::StaticAssertDynamicMessage { call_stack }
             | RuntimeError::StaticAssertDynamicPredicate { call_stack }
-            | RuntimeError::StaticAssertFailed { call_stack }
+            | RuntimeError::StaticAssertFailed { call_stack, .. }
             | RuntimeError::IntegerOutOfBounds { call_stack, .. }
             | RuntimeError::UnsupportedIntegerSize { call_stack, .. }
             | RuntimeError::InvalidBlackBoxInputBitSize { call_stack, .. }

compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/ir/dfg.rs

@@ -525,6 +525,24 @@ impl DataFlowGraph {
         }
     }
 
+    /// If this value points to an array of constant bytes, returns a string
+    /// consisting of those bytes if they form a valid UTF-8 string.
+    pub(crate) fn get_string(&self, value: ValueId) -> Option<String> {
+        let (value_ids, _typ) = self.get_array_constant(value)?;
+
+        let mut bytes = Vec::new();
+        for value_id in value_ids {
+            let field_value = self.get_numeric_constant(value_id)?;
+            let u64_value = field_value.try_to_u64()?;
+            if u64_value > 255 {
+                return None;
+            };
+            let byte = u64_value as u8;
+            bytes.push(byte);
+        }
+        String::from_utf8(bytes).ok()
+    }
+
     /// A constant index less than the array length is safe
     pub(crate) fn is_safe_index(&self, index: ValueId, array: ValueId) -> bool {
         #[allow(clippy::match_like_matches_macro)]

compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/ir/printer.rs

@@ -274,22 +274,11 @@ pub(crate) fn try_to_extract_string_from_error_payload(
     values: &[ValueId],
     dfg: &DataFlowGraph,
 ) -> Option<String> {
-    (is_string_type && (values.len() == 1))
-        .then_some(())
-        .and_then(|()| {
-            let (values, _) = &dfg.get_array_constant(values[0])?;
-            let values = values.iter().map(|value_id| dfg.get_numeric_constant(*value_id));
-            values.collect::<Option<Vec<_>>>()
-        })
-        .map(|fields| {
-            fields
-                .iter()
-                .map(|field| {
-                    let as_u8 = field.try_to_u64().unwrap_or_default() as u8;
-                    as_u8 as char
-                })
-                .collect()
-        })
+    if is_string_type && values.len() == 1 {
+        dfg.get_string(values[0])
+    } else {
+        None
+    }
 }
 
 fn display_constrain_error(

compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/opt/assert_constant.rs

@@ -122,7 +122,11 @@ fn evaluate_static_assert(
     } else {
         let call_stack = function.dfg.get_instruction_call_stack(instruction);
         if function.dfg.is_constant(arguments[0]) {
-            Err(RuntimeError::StaticAssertFailed { call_stack })
+            let message = function
+                .dfg
+                .get_string(arguments[1])
+                .expect("Expected second argument to be a string");
+            Err(RuntimeError::StaticAssertFailed { message, call_stack })
         } else {
             Err(RuntimeError::StaticAssertDynamicPredicate { call_stack })
         }

noir_stdlib/src/lib.nr

@@ -120,3 +120,10 @@ where
 
 #[builtin(as_witness)]
 pub fn as_witness(x: Field) {}
+
+mod tests {
+    #[test(should_fail_with = "custom message")]
+    fn test_static_assert_custom_message() {
+        super::static_assert(1 == 2, "custom message");
+    }
+}