Re: [Condor-devel] MyString::GetCStr deprecated

[Douglas Thain <dthain@xxxxxx>]

This article seems relevant to the discussion.
See about the third paragraph from the end.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Peter Keller <psilord@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:14:39PM -0600, Greg Thain wrote:
>> Having been bitten by the crazy semantics of MyString::GetCStr, I
>> decided this weekend to just remove it from our code.  I've removed all
>> uses of GetCStr (many of which were potential core-dumps), and made the
>> MyString::GetCStr method private.  There were a handful of cases where
>> we were relying on the odd semantics, so those cases are now more
>> explicit.   I realize this may cause some merge conflicts when fixing
>> 7.2 bugs, but it will be worth it in the long run.
>
> Awesome! Thanks!
>
> -pete
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