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I either don't understand how the annotation would work on types, or what would be gained by it. What type would be annotated? A typedef to char[]? edit: Unles

I either don't understand how the annotation would work on types, or what would be gained by it. What type would be annotated? A typedef to char[]? edit: Unless what they actually mean is annotating struct members, that would actually make sense.

_nalply 1y ago
I do understand. I imagine that it could work a little bit like unsigned: a modifier to integer types that tells that an integer's MSB is not to be used as a sign bit. __nonstring__ tells that the last byte of a byte sequence doesn't need to be NUL. I would find it sensible allowing putting the attribute to a type, but whatever.
- leni536 1y ago
  But that doesn't make any difference in the way you have to address existing `char arr[4] = "abcd"` declarations.
  - _nalply 1y ago
    True. This would be only useful in typedefs. An API could declare some byte arrays not strings. But again, whatever.