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Re: NULL in C (was RE: Why would MS want to makeXML

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• Subject: Re: NULL in C (was RE: Why would MS want to makeXML break on UNIX, Perl, Python, etc ?)
• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:37:27 -0800
• References: <200112220007.AAA28326@r...>

> >This is going off-topic a bit, but two ways to represent
> > 0C in C strings are:
> 
> Yes, there are certainly reasonable ways to do it.

Only if one is willing to give up the standardized
convention for representing strings in C ... have
a look at "strcpy", "strlen", "snprintf", and so on.

Of course, if you wanted to shift development
away from an open standard platform such as
C+POSIX, and had thought you'd already gotten
past the POSIX issue with a closed OS API ... ;)

- Dave

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