Re: Some dynamic module questions

[Helmut Eller]

On Thu, Dec 03 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Unibyte support has now been requested at least three times
>> independently (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23487,
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34873, this thread),
>> showing how much users care about it.
>
> Sorry; I haven't followed this thread -- but if you're talking about
> making unibyte strings in modules, this was addded in
> 12175a339e2a2214fdd0ab4e16d8d8b1e92a78d3.

My question is mostly if copy_string_contents can also be used for
unibyte strings or if there should be a separate
copy_unibyte_string_contents.

Encoding unibyte strings in UTF-8 probably doesn't make much sense, or
does it?  And adding a trailing NUL byte is not useful for binary data.

Helmut