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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 11:50:33 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1
Message-ID:  <20020531085033.GA27669@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020531143752.A50249@regency.nsu.ru>
References:  <200205301129.g4UBTPC53168@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020531012422.GA1928@hades.hell.gr> <20020531055523.GA6953@sunbay.com> <20020531143752.A50249@regency.nsu.ru>

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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:37:52PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:55:23AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:24:22AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > On 2002-05-30 04:29 -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > ru          2002/05/30 04:29:25 PDT
> > > >
> > > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > > >   1.12      +37 -43    src/usr.bin/unifdef/unifdef.1
> > >=20
> > > -Doesn't work correctly if input contains null characters.
> > > +Does not work correctly if input contains null characters.
> > >=20
> > > Shouldn't that be something like 'nul'?
> > > Perhaps:
> > >=20
> > > 	.Tn ASCII
> > > 	.Dv NUL
> > > 	characters.
> > >=20
> > Strictly speaking, "null character" and "NUL character" denote
> > the same thing.
>=20
> Though it is indeed the same thing, I prefer to use either form
> depending on context of speech, that is:
>=20
> 	"NULL pointer", but
>=20
> 	"Zero- (ASCII NUL) character-terminated string"
>=20
No, "NULL pointer" and "null character" (with "null" in lowercase)
are different things.  "null" character is given the NUL name in
ascii(7).


Cheers,
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