centos man page for empty_string

Query: empty_string

OS: centos

Section: 3alleg4

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empty_string(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual					     empty_string(3alleg4)

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. Allegro version 4.4.2 empty_string(3alleg4)
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