Hi Simon, On 2026-02-21T21:02:49+0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi Branden, > > > > On 2026-02-21T11:41:42-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > >> Hi Alex, > >> > >> At 2026-02-21T16:02:52+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > >> > +.SH RETURN VALUE > >> > +.IR s+strlen(s) . > >> > >> Too cute, in my opinion. Use English. :) > > > > The thing is, at first I thought, am I going to repeat the same exact > > words as in the DESCRIPTION? > > > > DESCRIPTION > > strnul() returns a pointer to the terminating null byte in the > > string s. > > > > RETURN VALUE > > strnul() returns a pointer to the terminating null byte in the > > string s. > > > > I could remove the DESCRIPTION altogether... What would you do? > > Use the same style as for strlen: > > DESCRIPTION > The strlen() function calculates the length of the string pointed to > by > s, excluding the terminating null byte ('\0').
Hmmm, maybe I could do this.
DESCRIPTION
strnul() calculates the position of the terminating null byte
in the string pointed to by s.
>
> RETURN VALUE
> The strlen() function returns the number of bytes in the string
> pointed
> to by s.
>
> One says what it does, the other says what it returns.
Thanks!
Have a lovely night!
Alex
>
> /Simon
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