Nobody spoken up for "zero-terminated" yet?
I'd say, rightly or wrongly, "null-terminated" (meaning the null
character) is much more common than "NUL-terminated".
Also I think the bikeshed should be a nice blue ;-).
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:25:25PM -0400, Paul Janzen wrote:
quoted text > >The C standard says nothing at all about nul or NUL. '__PLACEHOLDER__0_' is called
> >the null character. [Basically, the C standard is written in English
> >and uses English words to describe things.]
>
> A2.5.2 of my copy of K&R 2nd ed mentions the character NUL. The rest
> of the book, I guess, has to be EBCDIC-tolerant and just talks of the
> null character.
>
> Our man pages tend (and I used to encourage) using NUL-terminated as a
> short form of null-character-terminated, which is probably the most
> pedantic and correct way to say things.
>
> And actually, in the original diff, I think some of the sentences in
> question weren't even describing NUL-terminated strings, but pointing
> out that the function in question would ensure the presence of a
> terminating NUL...
>
> >I doubt changing things is worth the bother, but using
>
> Amen.
>
>
> Paul Janzen.
