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Re: Variables can’t contain NUL
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Variables can’t contain NUL |
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Mon, 21 May 2018 10:15:50 -0400 |
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On 5/21/18 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> If you're looking for some deeper answer, like "Why did Stephen Bourne
> write it this way back in 1977?" then I would hazard a guess along the
> lines of "It is tightly coupled to the underlying C argument-passing
> interface which uses NUL-terminated strings."
As well as the majority of the libc API, which depends on null-terminated
strings.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/