CORBA25 — Null termination of strings

Section 15.3.2.7 of the CORBA 2.3 spec, which describes the CDR encoding
of strings, includes the following sentence in the first paragraph:

"Both the string length and contents include a terminating null."

It is not clear from this whether exactly one terminating null is required,
or whether more than one null can be included, with the string being terminated
by the first null.

Since IDL strings cannot include nulls (see 3.10.3.2: "OMG IDL defines the string
type string consisting of all possible 8-bit quantities except null"), any
additional nulls following the first terminating null cannot be part of the
string, and it therefore seems reasonable to ignore them.

Proposed Resolution:

Change the above sentence in section 15.3.2.7 to:

"Both the string length and contents include at least one terminating null."

Also make the same change to the corresponding sentence in the third paragraph
of section 15.3.2.7 describing GIOP 1.1 wide strings.

To close with clarification revision