Consider abstracting `strlen` into a safer function #56

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opened 2024-10-06 10:32:05 +00:00 by lda · 0 comments

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Currently, the only real way to have a C string's length within Cytoplasm is the standard strlen function. However, this function is not required to do any NULL-checking, thus leading to potential pitfalls which should be avoided within Cytoplasm itself, and hence why a function like StrSize may be wanted within Cytoplasm(even if it simply adds a check beforehand).

Then again, this issue may be made non-relevant by #4 (I have already made some basic work for Unicode strings that I've left under CC0, will consider using that as a base for this issue)

Currently, the only real way to have a C string's length within Cytoplasm is the standard `strlen` function. However, this function is not required to do any NULL-checking, thus leading to potential pitfalls which should be avoided within Cytoplasm itself, and hence why a function like `StrSize` may be wanted within Cytoplasm(even if it simply adds a check beforehand). Then again, this issue may be made non-relevant by #4 (I have already made some basic work for Unicode strings that I've left under CC0, will consider using that as a base for this issue)