Comment by lelanthran
2 years ago
It also, in some situations, returns a *string" that doesn't have the null terminator, which means it is giving the caller something that literally isn't a string.
2 years ago
It also, in some situations, returns a *string" that doesn't have the null terminator, which means it is giving the caller something that literally isn't a string.
It always “returns” the same thing: a fixed size nul-padded buffer. Call it a char array if you want, that’s always been it’s role and contract.