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| -rw-r--r-- | library/std/src/os/raw/char.md | 2 |
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diff --git a/library/std/src/os/raw/char.md b/library/std/src/os/raw/char.md index 8256b725acf..375d070516e 100644 --- a/library/std/src/os/raw/char.md +++ b/library/std/src/os/raw/char.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Equivalent to C's `char` type. -[C's `char` type] is completely unlike [Rust's `char` type]; while Rust's type represents a unicode scalar value, C's `char` type is just an ordinary integer. This type will always be either [`i8`] or [`u8`], as the type is defined as being one byte long. +[C's `char` type] is completely unlike [Rust's `char` type]; while Rust's type represents a unicode scalar value, C's `char` type is just an ordinary integer. On modern architectures this type will always be either [`i8`] or [`u8`], as they use byte-addresses memory with 8-bit bytes. C chars are most commonly used to make C strings. Unlike Rust, where the length of a string is included alongside the string, C strings mark the end of a string with the character `'\0'`. See [`CStr`] for more information. |