Fixing C Strings

Re:Fixing C Strings by kelnos on Sunday December 22, 2024 @05:06PM (#42489552)

I'm sorry that not every programmer in the world has achieved your level of supreme perfection. We shouldn't design our languages or stdlib with the assumption that everyone will have read every line of documentation about them, and (even if they have) remember everything every time they sit down in front of their text editor. That's unrealistic.

I don't actually believe you that you've been programming for 50 years and never misused a string or a string API in C or a language with similar string handling. But even if I did believe you, it wouldn't matter. Many people make mistakes, and those mistakes have cost people a lot of time, money, and stress. If you've not read about any of these instances, then I suggest you've been living under a rock and are incredibly out of touch.

Or you're just trolling.

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Re:Fixing C Strings by Quis_sum on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:14AM (#42494494)

C was designed in the 1970s with the goal of giving you minimal overhead, bar using a macro-assembler. The way C handles "strings" provides exactly that.

The OP clearly stated that he did not mind the overhead (in terms of executable size, memory consumption, execution speed) in his particular use case.

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