Fun fact: this happened during the standardization of std::string_view, which ended up landing in C++17, a few years after this was fixed. Not that there weren'

Fun fact: this happened during the standardization of std::string_view, which ended up landing in C++17, a few years after this was fixed. Not that there weren't non-standard versions that existed. In the end they did a number of things to fix this, the patches are linked in the story I linked above. std::string_view has seemed, to this relative outsider, to be semi-controversial. It makes it pretty easy to introduce use after frees, that it's not null terminated can be easy to forget, and isn't bounds checked. So while it helps with some issues, it can create others, meaning it's not always a clear win.