If string arrays are null terminated in C, why are arrays of other data types not null terminated?

Question

Strings, or arrays of characters in C must be null terminated to know where they end. Why does the same rule not apply to arrays of other types? eg. How does the computer kn

Answer 1

You usually pass the length of the array along with the pointer. Nothing "knows" the length of anything.

Memory is memory. An array of bytes could have 0x42 0x41 0x44 0x00 in it, which happens to be the string for "BAD" But it could just as well be an integer representing "1145127936" or a float representing "773.0625"