Bill Allombert on Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:41:57 +0100


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Re: [PATCH] New function outString_printf


On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> In order to implement SVG plotting, the outString machinery from
> src/language/es.c is very useful. It allows writing to a string in a way
> which is very analogous as writing to a file. Unfortunately, this is
> currently not exported. This patch makes the minimal changes needed to make
> the functionality available which is needed for SVG plotting.

This is a good idea, but we should probably pick a different name than
outString/outString_printf to be nicer to use.

Cheers,
Bill.