Re: [PATCH] Further update of the i386 boot documentation

On Thu, 17 May 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

+Field name:	kernel_version
+Type:		read
+Offset/size:	0x20e/2
+Protocol:	2.00+
+
+  If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a null-terminated

"nil-terminated"? "\0-terminated"?

Uh?  That seems more than a little silly.  Yes, I guess formally
speaking we're talking about "NUL-terminated", but the term
"null-terminated" has over 800,000 hits on Google -- 10 times as many as
"NUL-terminated" -- and is hardly an ambiguous term ("NUL-terminated" is
ugly, and "zero-terminated" is ambiguous.)

ASCIIZ?


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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