Re: [sv-cc] RE: [sv-ec] Clarification on my earlier mail regarding on strings

So NULL is a pointer and NUL is a character?

Thanks,
Shalom

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Steven J. Dovich wrote:

> My apologies to Doug and Rob for using their comments as a soapbox
> for a pre-existing problem in the Verilog standard. Fortunately 1800
> does not appear to have imported the problem, but we need to be
> vigilant that it does not spread. Now for the standards rant...
>
> To be properly consistent with the C language, we also need to
> recognize that NULL is not a character, it is a pointer. C strings
> are composed of characters and are terminated by a "null character".
> Common usage also designates the character valued as '\0' as the
> NUL character from the ASCII character names (note the three letter
> spelling).
>
> Our draft would be improved by not requiring the reader to understand
> that we didn't exactly mean what we really said.
>
> /sjd

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