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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:47:18PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> writes:
> >Well, I once added the string termination to uv_to_utf8(). Not just
s/Not just/Not/
> >that I feel that strongly about it, mainly it was just paranoia about
> >non-terminated strings. Maybe we could add "= { 0 }" to all the utf8
> >temp buffers (which should be all of size UTF8_MAXLEN + 1).
>
> FWIW
>
> char foo[10] = { 0 };
>
> "means" set foo[0] to 0 and leaves foo[1..9] unspecified.
> Which is just what we don't want.
Ooops. I blame early morning low brain activity.
> If array is global/static it is best to not intialize it at all
> as ".bss" is bulk initiallized to zero.
> If we really want this then use Zero(foo,sizeof(foo),char);
In this case maybe we want a wrapper, uv_to_utf8z().
> And if array is auto then initiallizing it isn't base-line C at all
> (though gcc can do it).
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