Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character

2017-03-13 Thread Joseph Myers
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Manuel López-Ibáñez 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 standa

Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character

2017-03-12 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Manuel López-Ibáñez 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. > I don't see anything explicit here: https://gc

Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character

2017-03-10 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 06/03/17 21:15, Roland Illig wrote: Hi, 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. Since it is confusing to have two different terms for the

terminology: zero character vs. null character

2017-03-06 Thread Roland Illig
Hi, 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. Since it is confusing to have two different terms for the same concept, the term "zero character" s