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Re: `low slots'
- To: Hans Aberg <haberg@matematik.su.se>
- Subject: Re: `low slots'
- From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:04:24 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu, math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Hans Aberg writes
>> there is nothing in the C standard demanding strings to be null terminated...
That is incorrect. Section 2.2.1 of ANSI X3.159-1989 on p 11 says:
A byte with all bits set to 0, called the {\em null character},
shall exist in the basic execution character set; it is used
to terminate a character string literal.
Significant portions of the C library, and virtually every non-trivial
C program in exist, depend on this property.
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