Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:52:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strlen() question Message-ID: <199702132252.PAA01765@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970213230449.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 13, 97 11:04:49 pm
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> > > | style(9) - Kernel source file style guide > > > > See, there's the problem: libc is a user space library, not > > a kernel source file. > > But that wasn't what you claimed being your original problem, right? > I wonder when you ever admit being wrong for the first time... I said that strlen() took a NULL terminated string. I corrected it to 0 terminated string to make the nit-pickers happy. "NUL" with one "L" is the invention of a Pascal programmer with nothing better to do than to make noises about sign-extension on non-two's complement hardware for type demotion of 0 to character. > The title line of style(9) is slightly misleading. If you have had > looked into it instead of just mumbling about it, you would have > noticed that it covers several userland style issues as well. Ah. So you are saying it is out of date. PS: A style guide is not going to dictate to me anything about user land coding style for a given platform. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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