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Diffstat (limited to 'src/lisp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lisp.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/lisp.h b/src/lisp.h index a24898004d4..45353fbef3d 100644 --- a/src/lisp.h +++ b/src/lisp.h @@ -1516,11 +1516,11 @@ STRING_MULTIBYTE (Lisp_Object str) } /* An upper bound on the number of bytes in a Lisp string, not - counting the terminating NUL. This a tight enough bound to + counting the terminating null. This a tight enough bound to prevent integer overflow errors that would otherwise occur during string size calculations. A string cannot contain more bytes than a fixnum can represent, nor can it be so long that C pointer - arithmetic stops working on the string plus its terminating NUL. + arithmetic stops working on the string plus its terminating null. Although the actual size limit (see STRING_BYTES_MAX in alloc.c) may be a bit smaller than STRING_BYTES_BOUND, calculating it here would expose alloc.c internal details that we'd rather keep @@ -2988,7 +2988,7 @@ CHECK_INTEGER (Lisp_Object x) /* Define a built-in function for calling from Lisp. `lname' should be the name to give the function in Lisp, - as a NUL-terminated C string. + as a null-terminated C string. `fnname' should be the name of the function in C. By convention, it starts with F. `sname' should be the name for the C constant structure @@ -4739,7 +4739,7 @@ extern char *xlispstrdup (Lisp_Object) ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC; extern void dupstring (char **, char const *); /* Make DEST a copy of STRING's data. Return a pointer to DEST's terminating - NUL byte. This is like stpcpy, except the source is a Lisp string. */ + null byte. This is like stpcpy, except the source is a Lisp string. */ INLINE char * lispstpcpy (char *dest, Lisp_Object string) @@ -4957,7 +4957,7 @@ enum : list4 (a, b, c, d)) /* Declare NAME as an auto Lisp string if possible, a GC-based one if not. - Take its unibyte value from the NUL-terminated string STR, + Take its unibyte value from the null-terminated string STR, an expression that should not have side effects. STR's value is not necessarily copied. The resulting Lisp string should not be modified or given text properties or made visible to @@ -4967,8 +4967,8 @@ enum AUTO_STRING_WITH_LEN (name, str, strlen (str)) /* Declare NAME as an auto Lisp string if possible, a GC-based one if not. - Take its unibyte value from the NUL-terminated string STR with length LEN. - STR may have side effects and may contain NUL bytes. + Take its unibyte value from the null-terminated string STR with length LEN. + STR may have side effects and may contain null bytes. STR's value is not necessarily copied. The resulting Lisp string should not be modified or given text properties or made visible to user code. */ |