From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: C-Ada Import of struct's -- Help
Date: 19 Oct 94 10:02:08
Date: 1994-10-19T10:02:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.94Oct19100208@goldfinger.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar@cs.nyu.edu's message of 18 Oct 1994 15:11:19 -0400
>be careful not to confuse here, there is no such requirement in C.
>Certain C library routines (but by no means all) require strings to
>be null terminated, and string constants are null terminated, but there
>is no general requirement in C that corresponds to this quote.
True in theory, but in practice my experience is that "all strings" in
C need to be null-terminated. A LOT of library routines and user code
will break if this is not followed, and 'lack of termination' is
clearly the exception, rather than the rule, in C practice.
dave
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1994-10-18 10:20 C-Ada Import of struct's -- Help Bob Wells #402
1994-10-18 9:58 ` David Emery
1994-10-18 19:11 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-19 10:02 ` David Emery [this message]
1994-10-20 0:36 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
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1994-10-19 13:57 Bob Wells #402
1994-10-18 3:34 mcnett michael david
1994-10-18 9:48 ` David Emery
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