Re: null-terminated vs. nul-terminated (was: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/gen)

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 04:53:19PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> The term "null-terminated string" is quite common when talking about C.

NULL terminated lists/array are quite common, but NULL is a pointer and
the string is terminated by a 0 char (sometimes spelled as \0 in a string
literal, but implicitly added by the compiler at the end of a literal,
and spelled as NUL in the ascii table).

>  I prefer to keep "null-terminated" here.

I think it is a bug.

When talking about it I prefer "zero terminated", or C-string, in
contrast to C++ std::string (which are objects) or Pascal strings
(which have an explicit length at the beginning).

Martin