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...The format API is similar in spirit to the C printf family of function but is safer, simpler and several times faster than common standard library implementations. The format string syntax is similar to the one used by str.format in Python. The library is fully type safe, automatic memory management prevents buffer overflow, errors in format strings are reported using exceptions or at compile time. The library produces compact per-call compiled code. The library is highly portable and relies only on a small set of C++11 features, like variadic templates, type traits, rvalue references, decltype, trailing return, types, deleted functions, alias templates. ...

An alternative to the string library for C and C++ which is more functional and does not have buffer overflow problems.

...It uses the memory paging system to allocate a guard page after each page of memory to provide a hardware boundary that can detect memory overflows. This allows for immediate detection of buffer overflow error conditions. There are many other memory checker programs in existence - why do we need another? This Hardware Memory Checker provides a combination of features not found in other memory checkers. - it uses the hardware paging system for immediate error detection (most other memory checkers look for modified memory in no mans land) - it is very fast compared to other hardware memory checkers because it makes fewer changes to the paging tables - it can track the original release location when debugging duplicate free problems - it is designed for large scale integration with the ability to call user defined fail functions