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If you want safety. you can just use _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS https://godbolt.org/z/eThdeW3Mv https://godbolt.org/z/eThdeW3Mv It gives you all bounds checking you need. In fact, a lot of Linux distributions (like Fedora) built all packages with _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS by default.