[LinAGKar]

But the code isn't equivalent. The C code just has a pointer to a manually allocated buffer, while the Rust does the equivalent of zeroing out (or leaving uninitialized) a C++ std::string. Akin to:

auto name = reinterpret_cast<std::string >(malloc(sizeof(std::string))); memset(name, 0, sizeof(std::string); *name = "basic";

But on the stack.