C API and memory allocation

Hrvoje Niksic hniksic at xemacs.org
Sun Dec 21 09:17:44 EST 2008


Aaron Brady <castironpi at gmail.com> writes:

> I hold this is strong enough to put the burden of proof on the
> defenders of having 's'.  What is its use case?

Passing the string to a C API that can't handle (or don't care about)
embedded null chars anyway.  Filename API's are a typical example.



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