Hi, Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 14:45 -0800 schrieb Tim Bell: > Alan Bateman wrote (about GetStringChars): > > > [...] is length+1 and zero terminated. There is a long-standing bug to > > clarify the JNI specification on this topic. I believe it should say that > > the returned array of Unicode characters is not required to be zero > > terminated and that one should use GetStringLength to determine the length. > > Roman Kennke wrote: > > > So this is indeed a bug, right? Do you think it makes sense to go out and > > fix it? > > I'd start here: > > 4616318 Spec for JNI's GetStringChars() is incomplete > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4616318
Hmm, I'm not talking about fixing the spec (I've read that bug report while searching for clarfication on the spec actually). When the spec doesn't tell _that_ the returned array is zero terminated, I think we should assume that it isn't (and it seems to be the trend that the spec should be clarfied by saying that an implementation isn't required to return a zero-terminated array, but this is only speculation). What I'm asking is, should we fix the java.io C code to deal with non-zero-terminated jchar arrays? Unfortunately, this probably means allocating additional buffers, because we really need zero terminated strings here (AFAICS). /Roman -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Roman Kennke, Software Engineer, http://kennke.org aicas Allerton Interworks Computer Automated Systems GmbH Haid-und-Neu-Straße 18 * D-76131 Karlsruhe * Germany http://www.aicas.com * Tel: +49-721-663 968-0 USt-Id: DE216375633, Handelsregister HRB 109481, AG Karlsruhe Geschäftsführer: Dr. James J. Hunt
