Git's list of banned C functions

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by ascar on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:41PM (#26350132)

At least you don't have (obvious) performance problems with it, because you will effectively never need more than 9 (usually 2 or 3) of these bytes.

But sure on modern 64 bit systems just using a 64 bit integer makes much more sense. On a small embedded 8 bit oder 16 bit microcontroller it might make sense.

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by selfhoster11 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:46PM (#26350823)

You are correct, I was trying to show that such a scheme was practical even in the early 1980s when zero-termination was beginning to dominate. This could well be used on 64-bit systems (just with a larger word size than a byte), though the utility of such a thing is questionable.

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