Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2007 01:31:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Grzegorz Kulewski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Further update of the i386 boot documentation |
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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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