[clug] [OT] Null-terminated strings: expensive mistake or not

[Sam Couter]

Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> I might be splitting hairs here, but if you don't like \0-terminated
> strings, you can write your own functions in C that use a different
> representation of a string and the only way the compiler would not
> be helpful is in dealing with initialising string constants - you would
> need to write a macro to do this instead.
> 
> Or am I wrong on this one?

You are absolutely correct. I can't be the only C programmer to write my
own half-baked string handling library.

Here's a much better, more widely used example of one:

http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Strings.html

The problem comes when you need to interface with other libraries that
use the NUL-terminated convention.
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