Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by initplus on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:21PM
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You can fix this issue by using a variable width integer encoding for the size.
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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by burntsushi on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:43PM
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It might fix that particular issue, but you still have the same problem that NUL terminated strings have: it's not possible to cheaply create views/slices of a string using the same type.