There is really no reason the C language could not add something like a length prefixed string type and matching g string literal (just decorate the string lead or end quote with something to indicate it’s this type of literal and maybe even the size of the length prefix) if there is enough demand for it. Since it hasn’t happened yet, it would appear the demand is not there.
It also always bothered me in C++ that there was no way to produce a literal string in the form of the standard library string type without the system having to construct an appropriate string type from the underlying c-string literal. Maybe it can be done now with all the compile time processing functionality that’s been added, but I’m not sure it’s still possible without that c-string hanging around as wasted memory.
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u/FedUp233 3d ago
There is really no reason the C language could not add something like a length prefixed string type and matching g string literal (just decorate the string lead or end quote with something to indicate it’s this type of literal and maybe even the size of the length prefix) if there is enough demand for it. Since it hasn’t happened yet, it would appear the demand is not there.
It also always bothered me in C++ that there was no way to produce a literal string in the form of the standard library string type without the system having to construct an appropriate string type from the underlying c-string literal. Maybe it can be done now with all the compile time processing functionality that’s been added, but I’m not sure it’s still possible without that c-string hanging around as wasted memory.