Re: Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers!

[Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>]

"G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid> writes:
> But can you pass std::string to the functions of Win32?

I don't know.  There might be some C++ bindings to an underlying Win32
API that wants null-terminated strings or something.  But remember, the
issue here was buffer sizes in the client program.

>     for (lr = s.begin(), rl = s.rbegin() - 1;
> 	 lr != right_end && rl != left_end;
> 	 lr += 2, rl += 2)  // or try `rl -= 2`
>     {
> 	*(lr + 2) = *lr;
> 	*(rl + 2) = *rl;	// and `rl - 2`
>     }

This is pretty horrific.  Trying to shuffle the string in place at all
is a code smell.  What the heck is it even supposed to do?

> Segfaults, null characters, and some harder to test algorithmic
> errors, depending on variation.

Doubtless.