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Are there better alternatives to null-terminated strings? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/programming@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

How would the machine know where the string would stop, since a string could contain literally any character?

But yeah... a .text section would be an alternative.

[โ€“] bit@ohai.social 8 points 1 month ago

@DmMacniel @velox_vulnus

Fixed length strings. You can only ever have strings of a particular length, no more, no less. No need to store the string length nor terminating characters. ๐Ÿค“

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