Usage of std::string.append causes "Stack around the variable 'result' was corrupted"

Posted by Yan Cheng CHEOK on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Yan Cheng CHEOK
Published on 2010-03-24T03:57:16Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 4:03 UTC
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I have the following code :

std::string Utils::get() {
    std::string result;
    result.append(1, 'x');
    result.append(1, 'x');
    result.append(1, 'x');
    return result;
}

I expect 'xxx' to be returned.

However, when I run under debug mode, I get the warning

"Stack around the variable 'result' was corrupted"

Am I using append function the wrong way?

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