From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master a9f147a: Use the full name of the null byte/character, not its abbreviation Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:21:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87wo04sclj.fsf@igel.home> References: <20201005182136.10826.67802@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20201005182138.AE01D209B9@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17105"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 21:22:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kPW4F-0004MX-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:22:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59434 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPW4E-00015R-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPW3D-0000eq-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:48452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPW3A-0003Nc-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4r7G39JFz1r68f; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:21:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4r7G2xztz1r0lY; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:21:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Pj-DZE6QonH1; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:21:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: O5Vhe3NOCz3X9DGgN8PDxqvT3J1/8tgaRz2h9RTSp+i2GvT5OKeXjeRccjYa5OWE Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-46-244-175-195.dynamic.mnet-online.de [46.244.175.195]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:21:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C11C12C2973; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:21:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Hello, GORRY-O!! I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:05:06 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.18.0.9; envelope-from=whitebox@nefkom.net; helo=mail-out.m-online.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/05 15:21:30 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -22 X-Spam_score: -2.3 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257141 Archived-At: On Okt 05 2020, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> -@xref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-nul-byte-detection}. >> +@xref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-null-byte-detection}. > > I think this patch is ill-advised. > > AFAIK "NULL" is a pointer of zero value, whereas the byte/char of zero > value is called "NUL", NUL is the ASCII abbreviation (TLA) of the null character. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."