From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:20:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1803221316390.94027@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201803221632.w2MGWSTC016570@freefriends.org>
> I'll agree with the latter part. But in my own code I try to be very
> careful to use NULL for pointers, '\0' for end of string,
In the '\0' case I have a preference for NUL, but admittedly it's easy to
confuse/typo with NULL. That convention follows from my habit of enuming
ASCII constants with their three-letter 'names' (e.g. CAN, DLE, ...).
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-22 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 14:17 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 2:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 17:39 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56 ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:04 ` [TUHS] comments ( was daemons exorcised ) Earl Baugh
2018-03-21 20:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 20:13 ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:28 ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Warren Toomey
2018-03-21 20:48 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 22:18 ` William Corcoran
2018-03-21 23:02 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-22 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 23:50 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 0:55 ` Mike Markowski
2018-03-22 1:00 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22 0:31 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22 0:58 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22 1:27 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 1:59 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 14:46 ` Steve Simon
2018-03-22 15:22 ` ron minnich
2018-03-22 16:22 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-22 16:32 ` arnold
2018-03-22 20:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2018-03-22 16:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-03-23 1:31 ` Charles Anthony
2018-03-22 1:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-22 2:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-22 13:49 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-22 14:29 ` Nemo
2018-03-23 1:54 Doug McIlroy
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