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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strings
Message-ID: <14334@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 15:11:28 GMT
References: <10250@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <8466@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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The major problem with using anything other than \0-terminated
strings in C is that you give up the easy ability to define
string constants a la "/etc/passwd".  Standard C compilers will
create a \0-terminated string for these, regardless of what
your home-made string utilities prefer.
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