Strings (RPC)

There are three strings types denoted by the following ending sub-strings in the format character.

Type	Substring
Character string	CSTRING
Wide character string	WSTRING
String-able structure	SSTRING

 

Nonconformant Strings

An example of nonconformant string is a [string] on a fixed-size array.

FC_CSTRING | FC _WSTRING 
FC_PAD 
string_size<2>

Conformant Strings

FC_C_CSTRING | FC_C_WSTRING
FC_PAD 

–or–

FC_C_CSTRING | FC_C_WSTRING 
FC_STRING_SIZED 
conformance_description<> 

The first format describes common strings, like a [string] char * argument. A sized conformant string has the latter description.

The conformance_description<> is a correlation descriptor and has 4 or 6 bytes depending on whether /robust is used.

Structure Strings

The following is a nonconformant string-able structure:

FC_SSTRING 
element_size<1> 
number_of_elements<2>

Conformant string-able structure:

FC_C_SSTRING 
element_size<1>

–or –

FC_C_SSTRING 
elements_size<1> 
FC_STRING_SIZED FC_PAD 
conformance_description<>

The latter description is for a sized string-able structure.