High Integrity CPP Rule 17.12

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High Integrity CPP Rule 17.12 Only use STL string's member c_str to get a const char* to use with legacy functions.

Justification

The c_str method is defined to return a valid, null terminated C style string. Other methods of getting a C style representation are implementation defined and not portable.

Reference

Effective STL Item 16;