Re: To Professor Daniel Bernstein: thanks for stralloc / array

Hi,

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to say thank you for the stralloc string library, now
> being replaced by the array library.
> 
> I think this library is a key to security and great performance of
> your software. I adapted this concept in some of my C projects and I
> think it was good move. I would suggest anyone to replace rubbish old
> string.h string functions with this library. I'd like to highlight
> main features, maybe someone will benefit from that.
> 
> - programs using stralloc are immune to buffer overflows or reading
> beyond the end of string, see qmail or other DJB software,
> - great performance -- it doesn't have to traverse the whole string
> when appending to it, because it maintains current length,
> - it's binary safe, it can't be fooled by strings containing '\0's or
> other garbage in the middle,
> - the API is very simple yet powerful.
> 
> Take a look at the docs here
> http://cr.yp.to/lib/stralloc.html
> 
> Mr Bernstein please also consider adding stralloc_contains() and
> stralloc_endswith() to your implementation. These are useful functions
> which are trivial to implement.

to continue the off-topic, where does one download these libraries
as such? or they are "only" API proposals?

Alejandro Mery