This options sets a compile option when building sources inside the
string directory, and this option affects string_utils.h. But
string_utils.h is #included from more places than just the string
directory (such as from __support/CPP/string.h), leading to both
narrow-reads in those cases, but more seriously, ODR violations when the
two different string_length implementations are included int he same
program.
Having this option at the top level avoids this problem.
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