From: daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com   
      
   On 2012-03-30 05:51, Pete Becker wrote:   
   > On 2012-03-29 21:05:40 +0000, Nikolay Ivchenkov said:   
   >   
   >> On 29 Mar, 23:13, Seungbeom Kim  wrote:   
   >>> Therefore, I think an implementation   
   >>> that doesn't keep a null character at the end is making things difficult   
   >>> for itself for no good reason I can see.   
   >>   
   >> Such implementations of basic_string are disallowed under C++11 rules   
   >> - see 21.4.7.1/1.   
   >   
   > Not really. c_str() can return a pointer to a newly-allocated array   
   > that holds a copy of the data, with a terminating 0. Sigh.   
      
   Only in C++03.   
      
   > But I vaguely recall that there was a change for C++11 that did   
   > disallow this kind of thing, but it's not coming to mind at the moment.   
      
   This is correct, in C++11 this has changed, both data() and c_str() are   
   now noexcept functions and *both* are required to return a pointer to a   
   null-terminated string.   
      
   Greetings from Bremen,   
      
   Daniel Krügler   
      
      
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