I was under the impression that `String#encodeToByteArray` would add a null terminator, since it’s ...

# kotlin-native

[Landry Norris]

I was under the impression that String#encodeToByteArray would add a null terminator, since it’s used by cstr, however, this does not appear to be the case. Should I manually add 0.toChar() to each string I need to pass to C? I also noticed that ‘\0’ is not valid in Kotlin, saying it’s an illegal escape.

[Landry Norris]

Looks like cstr adds 1 to the size when placing and manually sets the last byte, after writing the result of encodeToByteArray.

[ephemient]

Kotlin doesn't have octal escapes, only hex unicode escapes (and a few named escapes). NUL char is \u0000