diff --git a/src/glue.c b/src/glue.c
index cb3a7ce7de4dbc435da4ddefc4dfae956a3a063f..58fe4175d4fd326b62c76449449a74768605ca9e 100644
--- a/src/glue.c
+++ b/src/glue.c
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ HParsedToken *h_make_seqn(HArena *arena, size_t n)
   return ret;
 }
 
-HParsedToken *h_make_bytes(HArena *arena, size_t len)
+HParsedToken *h_make_bytes(HArena *arena, uint8_t *array, size_t len)
 {
   HParsedToken *ret = h_make_(arena, TT_BYTES);
   ret->bytes.len = len;
-  ret->bytes.token = h_arena_malloc(arena, len);
+  ret->bytes.token = array;
   return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/glue.h b/src/glue.h
index 6c1c56ca0e368bc407d846f342dd52ba934c9dda..0bbfe9cfa26ec1bb6376ff23aa3b2d6cc3b4e873 100644
--- a/src/glue.h
+++ b/src/glue.h
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ HParsedToken *h_act_ignore(const HParseResult *p, void* user_data);
 HParsedToken *h_make(HArena *arena, HTokenType type, void *value);
 HParsedToken *h_make_seq(HArena *arena);  // Makes empty sequence.
 HParsedToken *h_make_seqn(HArena *arena, size_t n);  // Makes empty sequence of expected size n.
-HParsedToken *h_make_bytes(HArena *arena, size_t len);
+HParsedToken *h_make_bytes(HArena *arena, uint8_t *array, size_t len);
 HParsedToken *h_make_sint(HArena *arena, int64_t val);
 HParsedToken *h_make_uint(HArena *arena, uint64_t val);
 
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ HParsedToken *h_make_uint(HArena *arena, uint64_t val);
 #define H_MAKE(TYP, VAL)  h_make(p->arena, (HTokenType)TT_ ## TYP, VAL)
 #define H_MAKE_SEQ()      h_make_seq(p->arena)
 #define H_MAKE_SEQN(N)    h_make_seqn(p->arena, N)
-#define H_MAKE_BYTES(LEN) h_make_bytes(p->arena, LEN)
+#define H_MAKE_BYTES(VAL, LEN) h_make_bytes(p->arena, VAL, LEN)
 #define H_MAKE_SINT(VAL)  h_make_sint(p->arena, VAL)
 #define H_MAKE_UINT(VAL)  h_make_uint(p->arena, VAL)
 
diff --git a/src/hammer.h b/src/hammer.h
index f893f10df4349d2ccc9d3a1c8c8675f60e014c9b..ce4eeca575c81f0dea7371f6155fb6f71d23dfd2 100644
--- a/src/hammer.h
+++ b/src/hammer.h
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ HAMMER_FN_DECL(HParseResult*, h_parse, const HParser* parser, const uint8_t* inp
  */
 HAMMER_FN_DECL(HParser*, h_token, const uint8_t *str, const size_t len);
 
+#define h_literal(s) h_token(s, sizeof(s)-1)
+
 /**
  * Given a single character, returns a parser that parses that 
  * character.