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Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>, Roland Illig <roland dot illig at gmx dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:02:18 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>>> I am currently translating GCC into German. During that, I noticed that
>>>> in some places the term "zero character" means '\0'. The official term
>>>> though is "null character", as per the C standard.
>> Joseph, do you also agree (and with the patch below to document this)?
> Yes.
Cool; I committed the change to codingconventions.html .
Roland (and Manuel), that means you can now proceed according to
Manuel's recommendation.
Gerald