In article 96May2122010@gabi.gabi-soft.fr, kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes:
> In article <jc.830939057@atcmpg> jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
> writes:
>
> what should s.data() return compared to s.c_ptr() ?
>
> s.data should return a pointer to two bytes, containing 'h', 'i'.
> s.c_ptr should return a poitner to three bytes, containing 'h', 'i',
> '\0'.
>


The draft standard says string::data() should return c_str() if size() is nonzero,
otherwise a null pointer. Has it changed?

- Saroj Mahapatra, X/Motif/C++ consultant



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