From: "Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>
Subject: Re: Is there an end of string like in C
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:38:11 GMT
Date: 2006-06-30T19:38:11+00:00 [thread overview]
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Chris L wrote:
> In C, there is an end of string character ('\0'). Is there one in Ada?
Null-terminated buffers are a very very poor substitute for arrays. They
are the cause of a majority of all the security holes in computer
systems. Of course we don't do that in Ada. Read here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Strings#Unbounded-length_string_handling
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2006-06-30 18:57 ` Is there an end of string like in C Pascal Obry
2006-06-30 19:20 ` Martin Dowie
2006-06-30 19:24 ` Gautier
2006-06-30 19:38 ` Björn Persson [this message]
2006-06-30 20:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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