NULL-Terminated Strings #4

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jordan · 2023-10-10T08:30:32-04:00

jordan commented

2023-10-10 08:30:32 -04:00

NULL-terminated strings are a source of many inefficiencies and potential vulnerabilities in C code. We should add a custom Str type that stores the length separately and has its own handling functions for concatenation and the like.

NULL-terminated strings are a source of many inefficiencies and potential vulnerabilities in C code. We should add a custom `Str` type that stores the length separately and has its own handling functions for concatenation and the like.

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jordan commented

2024-01-13 12:34:07 -05:00

This custom Str type should be Unicode aware. If that means it stores characters as uint32_t, then so be it, although that isn't very memory-efficient in most cases.

This custom `Str` type should be Unicode aware. If that means it stores characters as `uint32_t`, then so be it, although that isn't very memory-efficient in most cases.

jordan added this to the Cytoplasm v1.0.0 milestone 2024-01-13 12:35:02 -05:00

jordan commented

2024-05-27 17:18:06 -04:00

If we are going to go with a custom string type, we should also implement string interning so that #33 doesn't use up so much memory.

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2024-05-27 17:19:49 -04:00

Copy filename into preallocated field with Cytoplasm's Memory API #33

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