Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: C machine
Message-ID: <3078@phri.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 15:34:17 GMT
References: <261@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <164@sdeggo.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <164@sdeggo.UUCP> dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes:
> Besides, there's nothing that says you can't write a string package which
> has the string preceeded by the length.

	Sure you could, but the problem is that the C compiler only
supports null-terminated string constants (of the form "I am a string").
Either you have to learn to live without string constants, or put up with
having to initialize everything with 'cvt_null2count ("string constant")'
at run time.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016