What is this?

[xcvista]

I tried to read the code of this libmstring.1.so and I cannot understand it. Can you, more or less, document it?

[0xabad1dea]

Hi, I do not distribute this as "libmstring", that is probably a different project. In my case the m is for my first name as this was a personal project. Perhaps you are looking for http://nomoretears.org/projects/libmstring/

[xcvista]

I intended for this project actually. As it is obvious that this project is called mstring and it is a library, I called it libmstring and assumed the soname libmstring.1.so (libmstring.1.dylib on OS X, mstring.dll on Windows).

I would like to know 1) what is it and 2) what does it do and 3) what is the license term or public use is prohibited (assuming I can always fair use)

And a little tip, can you read a little bit about assert.h?

[0xabad1dea]

Oh, okay. It's simply an experiment in a string library that tries to be more buffer overflow resistant with cute tricks, but I was unsure if the idea was sound, so I posted it to share with my peers. I just didn't want anyone thinking it was already in a usable state and using it when it may be completely flawed.

[xcvista]

Hmm... Actually there are already existing solutions in C. Apple's CoreFoundation is partially open-sourced and you can use their CFString, and GNUstep project have one implementation as well in library CoreBase too (but using that one would require a full Objective-C environment and can be a little tricky to set up)

And you can check out my universal linear array libvector https://github.com/xcvista/libvector and extend it to support string manipulation.