alt Hacker News> the word "null term" appears in the ascii art diagram
Yes but it does not appear anywhere in the struct that I can see... I would love to be proven wrong though.
> the word "null term" appears in the ascii art diagram
Yes but it does not appear anywhere in the struct that I can see... I would love to be proven wrong though.
the string needs a null terminator to be C-string compatible. the trick of putting a count at the end that turns into a null terminator at the right moment will save a byte, regardless of how it is labelled