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Subject: re: FTAM mods--nodenames
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Date: 25 Feb 91 05:08:53 GMT
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>  From: karen@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk
>  Message-Id: <9102221130.AA17270@palm>
>
>  Now I am wondering, although I don't need it immediately,  whether 
>  it would not be for the long-term best if ISODE's FADUidentity 
>  structure specified names as bounded strings (a "char*" and 
>  an "int" giving the string length) rather than just "char *".  
>  Up till now ISODE has not made much use of FADU names, so if 
>  such a change ought to be made this would be an excellent time 
>  to do it. What do you people think?
>  
>  Karen

Having recently read the interesting commentary in "Some Sad Remarks
About String Handling in C" by Paul W. Abrahams (SIGPLAN Notices,
V. 23, n. 10, pp. 61-68),  I'm inclined to concur that including an
explicit string length in such structures would be a good idea.

It would enable the implementation to become both more "conformant"
and more "performant".

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