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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Null-terminated C strings
Keywords: C strings instructions architecture
Message-ID: <8644@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 20:19:57 GMT
References: <14116@think.UUCP> <2958@okstate.UUCP> <152@piring.cwi.nl> <2033@geac.UUCP> <2637@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2637@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>[I have directed followups to comp.lang.c only]
>
>I believe it was a mistake in C to make string constants refer to null
>terminated strings automatically.  Better, I think, to make the constant
>contain exactly what the programmer wrote.  That way, other string-

It is easy enough to do what (I think) you want by using a use defined
type and writing your own procedures.




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