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Re:Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminat... by roywiggins on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:38PM (#16161517)
> Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end?

This explicitly is a different kind of representation in memory.

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