Null characters in files

Jason Merrill jason@cygnus.com
Mon Apr 3 13:57:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

 > Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
 >>  >> No.  Embedded in a string, they should be passed through.  It's perfectly
 >>  >> reasonable to have an embedded null in a string.
 >> 
 >>  > But we still want a warning, no?
 >> 
 >> I don't feel strongly about that.

 > I don't think it is reasonable to have an embedded null in a string.
 > The nul character is not in the C source character set.
 > I feel there should be warning, perhaps a pedwarn.

OK, perhaps "reasonable" was too strong.  A warning does make sense.  But
the null should be passed through.

Jason


More information about the Gcc-patches mailing list