[Bug binutils/17759] New: windres should support to generate string tables with zero-terminated strings

[mity at morous dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17759

            Bug ID: 17759
           Summary: windres should support to generate string tables with
                    zero-terminated strings
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: mity at morous dot org

Win32 API function LoadString() allows to get read-only pointer into the
resource data instead of copying the string into provided buffer. (Application
can trigger this behavior when using zero as the last argument of the
function.)

In this case, it is very useful if the string in the resource table is already
zero-terminated so application can work with it using the plethora of API
functions which expect zero-terminated (unicode) strings.

RC.EXE has an option '/n' to request this. There is no similar option for
windres which would do the same.

As a workaround, the *.RC script can specify the zero terminators explicitly,
e.g.:

STRINGTABLE
BEGIN
    IDS_FOO      "foo\0"
    IDS_BAR      "bar\0"
END

Unfortunately unlike windres, RC.EXE by default removes the explicitly
specified zero terminators. In order to get the zero-terminated strings in both
RC.EXE and windres, it is needed to use the explicit terminators and also
specify /n option for RC.EXE. That's quite fragile and I see that as very
inconvenient.

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