On 03/13/17 15:02, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Joseph Myers wrote: >>>>> I am currently translating GCC into German. During that, I noticed that >>>>> in some places the term "zero character" means '\0'. The official term >>>>> though is "null character", as per the C standard. >>> Joseph, do you also agree (and with the patch below to document this)? >> Yes. > > Cool; I committed the change to codingconventions.html .
I'm likely late to the party, but what's wrong with the traditional "NUL"? Googling "NUL vs. NULL" yields up: NULL is a macro defined in <stddef.h> for the null pointer. NUL is the name of the first character in the ASCII character set. It corresponds to a zero value. There s no standard macro NUL in C, but some people like to define it.