If you program in C, strings are just in your imagination. What you really have is a character pointer, and we all agree that a string is every character from that point up until one of the charact… ...

About four years ago, Microsoft decided to do something about its part of the problem, and added “secure” string handling functions to the C runtime library.

Optimized String Handling Delivers Up to 18% Code Size Reductions String compression for 7-bit ASCII strings has been implemented for Microchip's 14-bit opcode PIC12 and PIC16 families. Studies ...