Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 16:49:06 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Further update of the i386 boot documentation |
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On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:44 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >>> + 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.) > > > > 0x00 or \0-terminated is idiomatic and unambigous. Not a big deal > either way.
I've mostly seen it as NUL-terminated.
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