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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:48:47 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Network error strings

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 04:11:02PM +1100, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the file src/network/gai_strerror.c all error messages are terminated with an explicit NUL byte,
> except the last that has a NUL byte preceding it. Is this correct? I don't have a deep understanding
> of this code, so apologies if this is intentional. It just jumped out at me today as unusual.

Yes, it's intentional and it's simply how the advance/stop logic
works in the tiny loop in the actual code.

Rich

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