Comment by jacquesm
2 years ago
Which C compilers are those then?
Also, you keep writing 'null pointer' and 'null', there is a pretty big difference between 'null' and 'nul' and in the context of talking about language implementation details such little things matter a lot. You say a lot of stuff with great authority that simply doesn't match my experience (as a C programmer of many decades) and while I'm all open to being convinced otherwise you will have to show some references and examples.
What doesn't match your experience?
My experience as a programmer of some 40 years in C has yet to expose me to a C compiler that has length based rather than nul terminated strings as the base string type. Please point me to one in somewhat widespread use rather than an experimental implementation that uses this concept and make sure not to confuse libraries with the implementation of the language.
Since no C/C++ compiler supports it, for them implementation is in a library.
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