From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Further update of the i386 boot documentation
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:49:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517164906.c7b96fe9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464CE5A4.3040106@goop.org>
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:44 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >>> + If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a null-terminated
> >>>
> >>>
> >> "nil-terminated"? "\0-terminated"?
> >>
> >
> > Uh? That seems more than a little silly. Yes, I guess formally
> > speaking we're talking about "NUL-terminated", but the term
> > "null-terminated" has over 800,000 hits on Google -- 10 times as many as
> > "NUL-terminated" -- and is hardly an ambiguous term ("NUL-terminated" is
> > ugly, and "zero-terminated" is ambiguous.)
> >
>
> 0x00 or \0-terminated is idiomatic and unambigous. Not a big deal
> either way.
I've mostly seen it as NUL-terminated.
---
~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 22:50 H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-17 23:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-17 23:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-17 23:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-17 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-17 23:49 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2007-05-17 23:31 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
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