Nobody spoken up for "zero-terminated" yet? I'd say, rightly or wrongly, "null-terminated" (meaning the null character) is much more common than "NUL-terminated".
Also I think the bikeshed should be a nice blue ;-). On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:25:25PM -0400, Paul Janzen wrote: > >The C standard says nothing at all about nul or NUL. '\0' is called > >the null character. [Basically, the C standard is written in English > >and uses English words to describe things.] > > A2.5.2 of my copy of K&R 2nd ed mentions the character NUL. The rest > of the book, I guess, has to be EBCDIC-tolerant and just talks of the > null character. > > Our man pages tend (and I used to encourage) using NUL-terminated as a > short form of null-character-terminated, which is probably the most > pedantic and correct way to say things. > > And actually, in the original diff, I think some of the sentences in > question weren't even describing NUL-terminated strings, but pointing > out that the function in question would ensure the presence of a > terminating NUL... > > >I doubt changing things is worth the bother, but using > > Amen. > > > Paul Janzen.
