shuford@cs.utk.edu (02/25/91)
> From: karen@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk > Message-Id: <9102221130.AA17270@palm> > > Now I am wondering, although I don't need it immediately, whether > it would not be for the long-term best if ISODE's FADUidentity > structure specified names as bounded strings (a "char*" and > an "int" giving the string length) rather than just "char *". > Up till now ISODE has not made much use of FADU names, so if > such a change ought to be made this would be an excellent time > to do it. What do you people think? > > Karen Having recently read the interesting commentary in "Some Sad Remarks About String Handling in C" by Paul W. Abrahams (SIGPLAN Notices, V. 23, n. 10, pp. 61-68), I'm inclined to concur that including an explicit string length in such structures would be a good idea. It would enable the implementation to become both more "conformant" and more "performant". -- .....Richard S. Shuford | "Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke .....shuford@cs.utk.edu | a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise .....BIX: richard | man and he will be wiser still." Proverbs 9:7 NIV