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Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @03:24AM (#39753615)
They are hard to use when you absolutely want to use them the hard way, std::span can provide you lots of safety, but people don't use available tools.
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Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning by pjmlp on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @03:33AM (#39753660)
It provides none, unless you are using C++26 compiled with hardned standard library mode.

If you care about safety use gsl::span instead.

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