From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-16 05:20:20
Pavol Droba skrev:
> Hi,
>
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>> I agree we could add a new function. Can we come up with a better name
>> than as_c_str()?
>>
>> Or should we simply make as_literal() scan the array?
>>
>
> I think, that as_literal should behave the same way for character arrays
> and for c-string. Different behaviour is unexpexted here.
>
> The only difference that could be beneficial is that for arrays, the
> scanning for nulls can be bounded to protect agains the buffer overruns.
By an assertion, I pressume.
Would you commit a fix to trunk then?
-Thorsten