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From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
To: Stefan Kanthak <stefan.kanthak@nexgo.de>
Cc: <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	<linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wcschr(3): add special case for  NUL, as in strchr(3)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:09:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210712160906.yfb4etzsylmzulox@jwilk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64D55817DE2A4D0E99757425D9883066@H270>

* Stefan Kanthak <stefan.kanthak@nexgo.de>, 2021-07-12, 11:37:
>JFTR: to avoid any possible confusion of "null byte" alias NUL with the 
>"null pointer" alias NULL (C macro) or nullptr (C++), "null byte" 
>should be replaced with "NUL byte"!

"NUL byte" looks like a typo for "NULL byte", so if anything, it makes 
the potential for confusion greater.

Anyway, "null byte" is the preferred term in the man-pages style guide; 
see the "NULL, NUL, null pointer, and null character" subsection in 
man-pages(7).

-- 
Jakub Wilk

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-12 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-12  9:37 wcschr(3): add special case for NUL, as in strchr(3) Stefan Kanthak
2021-07-12 16:09 ` Jakub Wilk [this message]
2021-07-12 18:41   ` Stefan Kanthak
2021-08-10  6:40     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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