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Sun, 08 October 2006 18:31

Shire
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Registered: September 2006
Location: Russia, Yamal peninsula

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C-like strings have a long history. But them have no length information, which can be unsafe ( while(*p) {...} ) and performance loss ( many strlen() calls ). Microsoft marks many of c-like functions as deprecated.
U++ code have many functions with only const char* parameter. Is reasonable to change type of this parameters to some like ConstString?

#define cs_(buff) ConstString(buff, sizeof(buff))
#define s_(buff) ConstString(buff, strlen(buff))

class ConstString
{
  const char* pBuffer;
  unsigned length;
public
  ConstString(const char* p, unsigned length);
  // operators, accessors, etc..
}

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