Byte-compiled chunk safe in C string?

[phil@...]

I'm designing a binary file format, and I'd like to be able to embed byte-compiled 
Lua chunks in it. I looked in the refman, but I wasn't able to find anything on it. 
So, can I store byte-compiled chunks in null-terminated C strings? Specifically, 
will there be any stray nulls in a byte-compiled chunk?

Thanks, Philip Bock