Great thanks Alex and Maciej.
ffi.buffer works as expected.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Use ffi.buffer and not ffi.string
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Yicong Huang <hengha....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We used ffi.string() to convert C++ char* to pypy string.
> > But recently, we found out ffi.string() used '\0' as the indicator of
> string
> > termination. And it bring some problems of converting a binary string.
> >
> > Our case is we read char*(buf) from a binary file, and buf might contain
> > '\0'. Using ffi.string() we were not able to convert completed buf to
> PyPy
> > string. We've tried ffi.string(buf, length), but it also did not work.
> > Are there any solutions?
> >
> >
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