Use alloca() for strings
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Key: LUCY-100
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCY-100
Project: Lucy
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Reporter: Marvin Humphrey
Assignee: Marvin Humphrey
Priority: Minor
For security and reliability, Lucy eschews C-style NULL-terminated strings
except when absolutely necessary, favoring CharBuf objects instead. However,
we would prefer to keep structs opaque and to use stack memory instead of heap
memory for small string values. Furthermore, we would like to use object
pointers consistently rather than object structs.
These ends can be achieved by deploying the the non-standard but widely
available stack memory allocator alloca().
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