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by thelopa 1111 days ago
Many of the str functions in the C standard library assume a nul terminator.
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adastra22 1111 days ago
Yes, but aside from string literals pointed out by a sibling comment, nothing in the language itself dictates this convention. The C library could be augmented with functions which expect strings structured in other ways.
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ixtenu 1111 days ago
> nothing in the language itself dictates this convention.

String literals are nul-terminated, e.g.: "foo"[3] == '\0'

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