Re: Programming question

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:18:40AM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > can it be assumed that > > zval.str.val[zval.str.len] = '\0'? > > > > i.e., the byte after the string in a zval is the null-byte? > > > > That is assumed in various places in ext/standard/string.c, and AFAIK > > that may not always be true. > > No code in PHP should assume this. PHP should always check the length. > However, many external libraries that take string arguments are not going > to be able to check our length property and we therefore should strive to > null-terminate all strings. I noticed Thies has been going through > recently and cleaning this up a bit. in debug mode php will also trow a warning if it finds a not zero-terminated string during execution. tc