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Comment by dayjah

I’ve near infinite respect for DJB, so I’m assuming I’ve missed something obvious here. Why is ‘,’ being used as a termination byte. Is it just a backstop? If buf[len+1] != ‘,’ then there’s a line error?

I’ve done plenty of wire protocol work, and length prefixed strings are great to work with. I’ve also been lucky that those strings were typically contained within a broader payload. To that end, I’ve not had to think about the case of many strings one after another.

parent dayjah 3 months ago

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