Comment by cpeterso
4 hours ago
> using u8 prefixes would obligate us to insert casts everywhere.
Unfortunately, casting a char8_t* to char* (and then accessing the data through the char* pointer) is undefined behavior.
4 hours ago
> using u8 prefixes would obligate us to insert casts everywhere.
Unfortunately, casting a char8_t* to char* (and then accessing the data through the char* pointer) is undefined behavior.
Yes, reading the actual data would still be UB. Hopefully will be fixed in C++29: https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/592