Hi,

To answer your need, we plan to add a new creation a little bit more general

	make_from_c_substring (c_string: POINTER; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER)
			-- Initialize from substring of `c_string',
			-- between `start_index' and `end_index',
			-- `c_string' created by some C function.
		require
			c_string_exists: c_string /= default_pointer
			start_position_big_enough: start_pos >= 1
			end_position_big_enough: start_pos <= end_pos + 1

And your suggestion:    make_from_pointer_and_count (c_string: POINTER; a_length: INTEGER_32)
is just replaced by  make_from_c_substring (c_string, 1, a_length)

Any comment? It would be implemented in next 17.05 release.