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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <11420@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Oct 89 17:22:57 GMT
References: <11398@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14115@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <14115@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>I don't see how.  C character strings are null terminated rather
>that keeping the length of the string explicitly.

Both approaches have their relative advantages and disadvantages.
Efficiency depends very much on the specific hardware support;
some architectures work quite well with delimited strings and
others work better with byte counts.

At least with C you have the option of implementing your own counted
strings if you prefer them.