use compound initializers to define and drive obj generation

src/base/base_strings.c

@@ -2811,7 +2811,7 @@ str8_serial_push_size(Arena *arena, String8List *srl, U64 size)
   void *result = 0;
   if(size != 0)
   {
-    U8 *buf = push_array_no_zero(arena, U8, size);
+    U8 *buf = push_array(arena, U8, size);
     String8 *str = &srl->last->string;
     if(str->str + str->size == buf)
     {

src/base/base_strings.h

@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ internal U64 cstring32_length(U32 *c);
 
 #define str8_lit(S)  str8((U8*)(S), sizeof(S) - 1)
 #define str8_lit_comp(S) {(U8*)(S), sizeof(S) - 1,}
+#define str8_lit_cstr(S) str8((U8*)(S), sizeof(S))
 #define str8_varg(S) (int)((S).size), ((S).str)
 
 #define str8_array(S,C) str8((U8*)(S), sizeof(*(S))*(C))