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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Further update of the i386 boot documentation
On Thu, 17 May 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> +Field name: kernel_version
>>> +Type: read
>>> +Offset/size: 0x20e/2
>>> +Protocol: 2.00+
>>> +
>>> + 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.)

ASCIIZ?


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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