Null-Terminated Strings
Null-Terminated Strings
Posted Nov 25, 2010 13:10 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785)In reply to: Null-Terminated Strings by Cyberax
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs
I agree with him that Pascal's strings are inflexible: think about two computer communicating together one with a 32-bit CPU, one with a 64-bit CPU, if you use a word as a length, you have an issue with Pascal's strings,
but C-strings don't care..
but C-strings don't care..
Posted Nov 25, 2010 16:22 UTC (Thu)
by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
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No, you haven't... (Original) Pascal "strings" were just (packed) arrays of characters of a fixed length.
/me ducks and runs for cover
Null-Terminated Strings