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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic allocation in the predefined language environment
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:42:40 +0200
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On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:13:17 +0000, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:

> I need to store strings of unknown length. For security reasons I set
> limits for the types of strings the software handles and I used
> bounded-length strings to store them.

Why don't you use plain strings allocated in an arena pool? Usually this
covers most of cases where you need controlled allocation of constant and
semi-constant strings.

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