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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C String terminator
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:59:40 -0800
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T <T@invalid.invalid> writes:
> Had this conversatio with someone over on the
> Raku mailing list:
>
>>>     By the way, "C String" REQUIRES a nul at the end:
>>>     an error in the NativeCall documentation.
>
>> No, it does not. And even if it did, it should better go to the C,
>> not Raku, documentation
>
> Would someone correct me if a C String actually does
> not require a nul to terminate itself?
>
> If I am correct, would someone give me the chapter and
> verse in the ISO that states this.  (The guy I am
> conversing with will ot take a third party definition.)

Can you provide a link to the discussion?  There are several Raku
mailing lists.

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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */