On 2017-02-06 10:40, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 02/06/2017 04:50 AM, Josh Soref wrote: >> NUL-terminated -> NULL-terminated > > When we're talking about NUL-terminated strings, NUL refers to the NUL > ASCII character. NULL usually refers to a NULL pointer. We're probably > not consistent about this, but in this context, NUL-terminated isn't > wrong, so let's leave them as they are.
The C standard talks about how "a byte with all bits set to 0, called the null character" is used to "terminate a character string"; it mentions '\0' as "commonly used to represent the null character"; and it also talks about when snprintf() produces "null-terminated output". It never mentions ASCII in this context; quite intentionally it avoids assuming ASCII at all, so that a standard-compliant C implementation may co-exist with other encodings (like EBCDIC). -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
