On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Christophe <[email protected]>wrote:
> using printf will lead to a bug each time the programmer forget the > trailing > \0. First of all, printf shouldn't be used! There's writef and it's superior to printf in any way! Second of all, if the zero-termination of literals are to be removed, the literals will no longer be accepted as a pointer to a character. The appropriate type mismatch error will force the user to use toUTF8z to get ht e zero-terminated utf-8 version of the original string. In case it's a literal, one could use the compile-time version of toUTF8z to avoid run-time overhead. This all doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. I don't see any security or performance flaws in this scheme. -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
