On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:01:24 +1100, Clement Clarke wrote: >Over many years, I have brought up the C string problem. Both it's speed >and safety. I developed some C macros which improve the situation, however >I think that by simply introducing a new file type, say .VB like .EXE, many >speed and safety issues can be corrected relatively simply, as well >as reducing the electricity and cooling water needed to shunt 5 billion >emails around the world each day. > That's FILE DATA=RECORD, with RECFM=VBS, ad lib. That's already in an extended attribute. Don't further overload the name space.
>Gradually, C and C++ could be changed internally to follow the excellent >PL/I practice of having the length of variable length strings at the front >of the strings which means searching for string terminators is not >necessary. > That's not part of the language, but of the standard library, which is replaceable. Note that the BPX1/BPX4 system calls do not depend on null-terminated strings. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
