writing directly to std::string internal buffers

Question

I was looking for a way to stuff some data into a string across a DLL boundary. Because we use different compilers, all our dll interfaces are simple char*.

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Answer 1

The standard part of std::string is the API and the some of the behavior, not the memory layout of the implementation.

Therefore if you're using different compilers you can't assume they are the same, so you'll need to transport the actual data. As others have said transport the chars and push into a new std::string.