You are correct, I was trying to show that such a scheme was practical even in the early 1980s when zero-termination was beginning to dominate. This could well

You are correct, I was trying to show that such a scheme was practical even in the early 1980s when zero-termination was beginning to dominate. This could well be used on 64-bit systems (just with a larger word size than a byte), though the utility of such a thing is questionable.