bug#55719: [PATCH] bindat strz fixes

[Richard Hansen]

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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