Data buffers returned by the binder and fast data APIs often contain pointers to names. Those are character data, but not stored as C null-delimited strings. Instead they have a separate length field in the buffer structure. This function returns a C string equivalent to the name returned by the API.

The function also provides special handling for binder-generated names, which are returned as binary numbers. The function will convert those to special displayable strings which will be recognized and automatically reconverted by the functions in this suite if they are passed back to the API later.