A quick introduction to Bstrlib

Bstrlib is a set of programs that is meant to completely replace the C standard library string handling functions. It provides the following groups of functions:

• Core C files (one source file and header)
• Base Unicode support, if needed (two source files and headers)
• Extra utility functions (one source file and header)
• A unit/regression test for Bstrlib (one source file)
• A set of dummy functions to abort the use of unsafe C string functions (one source file and header)

To get the core functionality of Bstrlib, a program only needs to include one header file, bstrlib.h, and one source file, bstrlib.c, for compilation, along with the other program source files.

Unlike C strings, which are arrays of '\0'-terminated characters, bstring is a structure, defined as follows:

struct tagbstring {

int mlen; // lower bound of memory allocated for data.

int slen; // actual length of string

unsigned char* data...