Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by flohofwoe on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:16AM
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> C doesn't have strings.
C has string literals though, and those bake a specific string representation into the language (of course libraries can use their own string representation, but those then need at least some conversion function from string literals).
Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by b5n on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:08PM
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String literals in C are simply a pointer to an array of bytes (generally speaking), and that's how they should be treated. Considering them as strings in the HLL sense is the entire issue here.
C has string literals though, and those bake a specific string representation into the language (of course libraries can use their own string representation, but those then need at least some conversion function from string literals).