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Followup: RE: Dynamic Strings

The main advantage of "dynamic strings" over bstrlib is that a string pointer is also a char * that can be passed to C string functions. You can get exactly the same effect by calling bdata() on your bstrings, provided you don't need embedded NULs, which is what the linked article assumes. I don't think that's a big inconvenience. The "dynamic strings" technique also has...

2009-06-15 16:29:34 UTC in better string library
Followup: RE: MinGW 3.4.5

It looks like you have your own header called "string.h" which is on the search path before the standard C string.h, causing mayhem when an STL header tries to #include <cstring>. The standard solution would be to put your own string package in a subdirectory, and only put the parent of that subdirectory on the compiler's search path, then include your header as #include...

2009-04-23 19:40:36 UTC in better string library