On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 12:11:59AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Justus Winter, le Sat 01 Feb 2014 16:34:20 +0100, a écrit :
> > I thought about doing that. But that would waste one character just
> > for the termination.
>
> That's little compared to security :)
> > GNU Machs printf implementation supports strings with the precision
> > given as argument:
> >
> > printf ("%.*s", sizeof foo->name, foo->name);
> >
> > I think thats clean, concise and easy to use.
>
> But people would tend to forget doing it. We can't really fight that.
Null-terminated strings is what people will naturally expect and have
in mind while reading/editing the code. Doing things differently for
something like mere names isn't worth the trouble.
--
Richard Braun
