Re: NUL to terminate strings; was reinventing ASCII?

Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:

> ["Followup-To:" nach comp.lang.misc gesetzt.]
> Torben Ægidius Mogensen <torbenm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schrieb:
>> richard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Tobin) writes:
>>
>>
>>> Of course the choice of zero lends itself to varous idioms, such as
>>> "while(*p++)".
>>
>> Is that a good thing?
> 
> Yes. It translates to optimal assembler code for most architectures.
> On others, while(p[i++]) would do, or while(p[i++]!=0), with the
> obvious compiler optimisation. In contrast, the comparison to anything
> else than zero needs more bytes and processor cycles.

IIRC, not (necessarily) true on an ARM.

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