Change the length of strings created from fixed-size buffers.

Use the usual C rule for NUL-terminated strings instead of discarding all the
trailing NUL characters.

This was unexpected (as buffers in C code are not necessarily always padded
with NULs to their full length) and also inconsistent among languages as this
was only done for those of them using typemaps/strings.swg but not for C# or
Java, for example, which terminated the string at the first NUL even before
this change.

Notice that this patch couldn't use strlen() or wcslen() with possibly not
NUL-terminated strings, so we had to add [our own equivalents of] strnlen()
and wcsnlen() and use them instead. This required adding yet another parameter
to string typemap macros, so update the example using them accordingly too.
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Vadim Zeitlin 2013-12-18 01:28:32 +01:00 committed by William S Fulton
commit 88a0e228a9
8 changed files with 75 additions and 20 deletions

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@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ t.var_paramc = sct_paramc
t.v_check()
# this value contains a '0' char!
if def_namet != 'ho\0la':
if def_namet != 'hola':
print "bad namet", def_namet
raise RuntimeError