28 Nov
2017
28 Nov
'17
6:58 p.m.
On 29/11/2017 01:57, Richard Hodges wrote:
It gives me the shivers. Binary data could easily have a zero in the last byte.
In theory those should be distinguishable -- char is a distinct type from unsigned char (even if char is unsigned by default), and *hopefully* anyone poking binary data at the wire is doing so as an unsigned char or uint8_t. In practice, there might be some trouble with people abusing std::string as if it were std::vector<uint8_t> by pointer casting.