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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by scott_s on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:41PM (#16596360)
> Do you mean std::vector and at()?

No, std::array was added in C++11: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/array

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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by saagarjha on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:28PM (#16598374)
std::array has its size fixed at compile time, so there's no reason for you to do have to do bounds checking…
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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by blub on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:20AM (#16599140)
char buffer[100] also has a fixed size and is responsible for most buffer overflow bugs :)

array::at is just as mandatory as vector::at IMO.

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