NUL termination

[Matthias Andree]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> The lexer routines that work with the buffer use a byte count and don't
> stop on a NUL byte.  I added the NUL byte because index() was going past
> the end of the buffer and segfaulting.  My changes deliberately allow
> only size-1 bytes in the buffer so that the NUL byte can be stored at
> buffer[count] without going beyond the buffer.  An alternate solution
> would be to use a length controlled version of index().  I think that
> would be overkill in this situation.

Given there is a solution in the ISO C standard, it comes for free. Its
name is memchr() and according to my manual page, it conforms to ISO C,
POSIX and is provided for by common implementations (BSD and SysV).

-- 
Matthias Andree