Re: [icu-support] UnicodeString and null terminators

[Markus S. <mar...@gm...>]

On 12/13/06, Brodie Thiesfield <bro...@je...> wrote:
> Is there any way that I can force the UnicodeString class to guarantee
> that getBuffer(void) const method will always return a null-terminated
> string (apart from when read-only aliased to a non-terminated string)?
> It is difficult in some circumstances to use the getTerminatedBuffer()
> call since it is non-const and I don't want to change the exposed
> interface to be non-const.

No, not without getTerminatedBuffer(). We would have to change a
substantial portion of the implementation to guarantee that the buffer
always contains a terminating NUL, if it's been written by
UnicodeString itself. However, it could still wrap other buffers (with
the aliasing constructors) that are not terminated, so there would not
be a firm guarantee on the getBuffer() API anyway.

markus