Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

larryr@pa.dec.com (Larry Rau (Migration Software))
Tue, 28 Jun 1994 19:13:58 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: larryr@pa.dec.com (Larry Rau (Migration Software))
Keywords: C, Pascal, design
Organization: Migration Software
References: 94-06-175 94-06-214
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 19:13:58 GMT

> One hack around that could be to encode the zero byte as
> zero-zero bytes. The decoding routine identifies consecutive


this is a pretty bad hack. not only does it require that you
possibly look beyond your allocated space. it also prevents such
practice as allocating memory and filling it with 0 and then
putting a null-term string in it. now you have "abc\0\0\0\0"
so where is the end? or what is the length?


.....larry
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