Re: [Boost-users] boost::asio::buffer bug with string literal

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::asio::buffer bug with string literal
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-29 01:58:43

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.