Re: "null terminator" v. "NUL terminator"

2023-01-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group dixit: >NULL and null are not the same thing. The "null" in "null terminator" >is a null byte, not a null pointer. There is a definition in XBD It’s a NUL byte. Conflating the use of the word “null” for the digit zero, the number zero, the charac

Re: "null terminator" v. "NUL terminator" (was: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000561]: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets)

2022-12-02 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare wrote in : |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote, on 01 Dec 2022: |> Being here, i note an increasing number of "null terminators" for |> strings, which surely is wrong as NULL==(void*)0 (or similar aka |> 0x0, 0, __null, whatever they are doing now and have complained or |> even failed about (

"null terminator" v. "NUL terminator" (was: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000561]: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets)

2022-12-02 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote, on 01 Dec 2022: > > Being here, i note an increasing number of "null terminators" for > strings, which surely is wrong as NULL==(void*)0 (or similar aka > 0x0, 0, __null, whatever they are doing now and have complained or > even failed about (?) in the past if misused), wher