Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:04:23 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1 Message-ID: <20021204180423.A25455@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200212041705.gB4H5ATC048432@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:05:10PM -0500 References: <200212041442.gB4EgnQL042381@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021204150932.GA47420@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <200212041705.gB4H5ATC048432@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:05:10PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > >The C Standard, which is character-set independent, also does not use >the ASCII name; C merely requires that there be a character with value >zero which can safely be used as a string terminator, and likewise for >wide characters. (5.2.1p2 in C95 and C99 calls that the "null character") I discussed this briefly with Ruslan before he committed; I also prefer "nul" because it reduces confusion (see rev 1.13) but didn't think it was important enough to argue about. Perhaps calling it a zero byte instead will avoid the problem in the future. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ CAPE WRATH TO RATTRAY HEAD INCLUDING ORKNEY: NORTHWEST 5 EASING 4 OVERNIGHT. BACKING SOUTHWEST 3 OR 4 DURING THURSDAY. FAIR. GOOD. MODERATE OR ROUGH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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