From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41996 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2017 21:28:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 41979 invoked by uid 89); 12 Mar 2017 21:28:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-11.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1072, H*c:HHHH X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: ainaz.pair.com Received: from ainaz.pair.com (HELO ainaz.pair.com) (209.68.2.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:28:19 +0000 Received: from anthias (vie-188-118-249-200.dsl.sil.at [188.118.249.200]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8E563F5D6; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:28:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez-Ib=E1=F1ez?= , "Joseph S. Myers" cc: Roland Illig , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character In-Reply-To: <43e59cbc-4352-af0a-90f1-112b1ae5301a@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <24d86a2d-02c2-7774-7876-73b7825c7811@gmx.de> <43e59cbc-4352-af0a-90f1-112b1ae5301a@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; BOUNDARY="0-1875823892-1489354036=:3498" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1875823892-1489354036=:3498 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-length: 1055 On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >> I am currently translating GCC into German. During that, I noticed that >> in some places the term "zero character" means '\0'. The official term >> though is "null character", as per the C standard. > I don't see anything explicit here: https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html > But I believe we follow standards' language and it should always be "null > character". Agreed. Joseph, do you also agree (and with the patch below to document this)? Gerald Index: codingconventions.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/codingconventions.html,v retrieving revision 1.79 diff -u -r1.79 codingconventions.html --- codingconventions.html 1 Mar 2017 12:53:57 -0000 1.79 +++ codingconventions.html 12 Mar 2017 21:26:56 -0000 @@ -439,6 +439,11 @@ + "null character" + "zero character" + + + "Objective-C" "Objective C" --0-1875823892-1489354036=:3498--