On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:44 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >>> + If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a null-terminated
> >>>
> >>>
> >> "nil-terminated"? "\0-terminated"?
> >>
> >
> > Uh? That seems more than a little silly. Yes, I guess formally
> > speaking we're talking about "NUL-terminated", but the term
> > "null-terminated" has over 800,000 hits on Google -- 10 times as many as
> > "NUL-terminated" -- and is hardly an ambiguous term ("NUL-terminated" is
> > ugly, and "zero-terminated" is ambiguous.)
> >
>
> 0x00 or \0-terminated is idiomatic and unambigous. Not a big deal
> either way.
I've mostly seen it as NUL-terminated.
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~Randy
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