Re: [boost] cstring_view

13 May 2022


      On May 13, 2022, at 12:29 PM, Rainer Deyke via Boost  wrote:
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On 13.05.22 20:39, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
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On May 13, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost  wrote:
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In what scenarios will it not give you a null-terminated string?
  char arr[6] = “hello";
  cstring_view csv(arr);
  assert(strlen(csv.data())) == 5);
        arr[5] = ‘!’;
  assert(strlen(csv.data())) == 5);  // boom
— Marshall
PS. It promises to give you a null-terminated string, but has no way to actually guarantee that.
That's an issue with views in general, not just cstring_view.
std::string s = "hello";
 string_view sv = s;
 assert(sv.size() == 5);
 s += "!";
 assert(sv.size() == 5); // boom
I don’t see the problem here (and when I run the code I get no error - after adding the missing ’std::').

No assertion failure; no undefined behavior (unlike the cstring_view example)

— Marshall