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why are they called descriptors rather than strings?

April 26, 2017called Descriptors strings

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why are they called descriptors rather than strings?

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They’re names as ‘descriptors’, because they are self describing (not literally, it means you donot have to give any parameters). Each descriptor object holds the length of the string of data it represents as well as its ‘type’, which identifies the underlying memory layout of the data it holds.