Re:Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]
by leetcrew on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:39PM
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> OTOH, if an incoming string doesn't have a NUL byte your program will crash/corrupt memory/worse.
how are linked lists different? if the last node contains garbage for its next pointer, the outcome will be exactly the same. it's a bit more rare to encounter an "unterminated" linked list, but I've seen it happen plenty of times deserializing a linked list from disk or if the programmer just forgot to initialize the pointer. c strings basically are linked lists with an implicit next pointer.
how are linked lists different? if the last node contains garbage for its next pointer, the outcome will be exactly the same. it's a bit more rare to encounter an "unterminated" linked list, but I've seen it happen plenty of times deserializing a linked list from disk or if the programmer just forgot to initialize the pointer. c strings basically are linked lists with an implicit next pointer.