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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0705180130010.14098@alpha.polcom.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 01:31:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@...com.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Linux Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: 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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