empty_string(3) - Linux man page

Name

empty_string - Universal string NULL terminator. Allegro game programming library.

Synopsis

#include <allegro.h>

extern char empty_string[];

Description

You can't just rely on "" to be a valid empty string in any encoding format. This global buffer contains a number of consecutive zeros, so it will be a valid empty string no matter whether the program is running in ASCII, Unicode, or UTF-8 mode.

Referenced By

get_datafile_property(3), ustrsize(3), ustrsizez(3)