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For example, early C compilers and linkers used 8-character fixed-length strings in their symbol tables, and many versions of Unix still use 14-character filenames. A related quirk of strncpy's is that it pads short strings with multiple \0's, out to the specified length; this can allow more efficient string comparisons since they can blindly compare n bytes without also looking for '\0'.

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