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Are there better alternatives to null-terminated strings? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/programming@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But wouldn't this be potentially unsafe? What programming language has this type of implementation, by the way?

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hmm I think I saw it in a C library

Edit: Might have been this one https://github.com/msteinert/bstring

Edit: actually seems it's this one. Look at what happens to ystr_header_t https://github.com/Amaury/Ylib/blob/master/src/ystr.c