This is phpt for str8 from ticket #40

msgpack/pack_template.h

@@ -730,6 +730,10 @@ msgpack_pack_inline_func(_raw)(msgpack_pack_user x, size_t l)
 	if(l < 32) {
 		unsigned char d = 0xa0 | l;
 		msgpack_pack_append_buffer(x, &TAKE8_8(d), 1);
+	} else if (l < 256) {
+		unsigned char buf[2];
+		buf[0] = 0xd9; buf[1] = (uint8_t)l;
+		msgpack_pack_append_buffer(x, buf, 2);
 	} else if(l < 65536) {
 		unsigned char buf[3];
 		buf[0] = 0xda; _msgpack_store16(&buf[1], (uint16_t)l);

msgpack/unpack_define.h

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ typedef enum {
 	//CS_BIG_INT_32        = 0x17,
 	//CS_BIG_FLOAT_16      = 0x18,
 	//CS_BIG_FLOAT_32      = 0x19,
+	CS_RAW_8			 = 0x19,
 	CS_RAW_16            = 0x1a,
 	CS_RAW_32            = 0x1b,
 	CS_ARRAY_16          = 0x1c,

msgpack/unpack_template.h

@@ -227,6 +227,12 @@ msgpack_unpack_func(int, _execute)(msgpack_unpack_struct(_context)* ctx, const c
 				//case 0xd7:  // big integer 32
 				//case 0xd8:  // big float 16
 				//case 0xd9:  // big float 32
+				case 0xd9:
+					trail = *(++p);
+					p++;
+					n = p; p += trail - 1;
+					cs = CS_RAW_8;
+					goto _raw_zero;
 				case 0xda:  // raw 16
 				case 0xdb:  // raw 32
 				case 0xdc:  // array 16

tests/137.phpt

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+--TEST--
+unpack/pack str8
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php
+	if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.2.0') < 0) {
+		echo "skip tests in PHP 5.2 or newer";
+	}
+--FILE--
+<?php
+	function test() {
+		if(!extension_loaded('msgpack'))
+		{
+			dl('msgpack.' . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);
+		}
+
+		$str = "Simple test for short string - type str8";
+		$str8 = chr(0xD9) . chr(strlen($str)) . $str;
+		echo msgpack_unpack($str8) . "\n";
+		$data = msgpack_pack($str);
+		echo ($data[0] == chr(0xD9) && $data[1] == chr(strlen($str)) ?  "OK" : "FAILED"), PHP_EOL;
+	}
+
+	test();
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+Simple test for short string - type str8
+OK