Re: [Chicken-users] c-string return question

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

On Oct 13 2011, Jim Ursetto wrote:

> On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
>
> > ages ago I wrote these simple lines:
>
> Out of curiosity, would this suit your purposes instead:
>
> (##sys#char->utf8-string (integer->char x))

Looks good.

I did not notice that this made it into the chicken core since
I wrote my code.

NB:  The code I posted is actually a good test case for the
c-string return value in the chicken FFI.
This code was actually converted to C from an equivalent Scheme
implementation (good enough by all counts for the actual purpose
at hand) to learn about Chickens c-string return handling.

So I'll stick with the test case and remove the "static" keyword
from the buffer definition once I have an updated gcc in my
production environment.

Have Fun

/Jörg