writing directly to std::string internal buffers

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I’m not sure the standard guarantees that the data in a std::string is stored as a char*. The most portable way I can think of is to use a std::vector, which is guaranteed to store its data in a continuous chunk of memory:

std::vector<char> buffer(100);
FunctionInDLL(&buffer[0], buffer.size());
std::string stringToFillIn(&buffer[0]);

This will of course require the data to be copied twice, which is a bit inefficient.

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