Re: [gfortran,patch] Correctly NULL-terminate character constant strings

[Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>]

Hi,

François-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote on Tue, 31 Oct 2006:
> Attached patch corrects a few functions which did not correctly
> NULL-terminate value.character.string for CHARACTER constants.
> Although it appears that this NULL-termination was not required when
> the front-end was first written, a few places now rely on it, and I
> don't think it's too bad to accomodate them. I've tried to review and
> fix not only the problem in the original PR, but all other such
> places.

Fortran strings can contain '\0', so assuming that '\0' is the string  
termination character may lead to problems.  Does code, which is not  
there for debugging only, depend on NUL-termination of strings?

- Tobi

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