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29.0.50; various bindat strz bugs

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From: Richard Hansen <rhansen <at> rhansen.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#55719: [PATCH] bindat strz fixes
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 16:08:18 -0400

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On 5/31/22 07:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Can you tell why you are convinced the null byte should be considered
> as part of the string?

The null terminator is the reason one would use the strz type. If the
user doesn't want a null terminator, they should use the str type
instead. From the documentation [1]:

> str len
>
>     String of bytes of length len.
>
> strz &optional len
>
>     Zero-terminated string of bytes, can be of arbitrary length or 
>     in a fixed-size field with length len.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bindat-Types.html#index-bindat_002dtype

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