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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Something like string-streams existing in "C"?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:45:01 -0800
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:14:17 -0300
> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> The standard should have a string stream compatible with FILE because
>> - differently of asprintf - if cannot be implemented separately.
>
> What level of compatibility?
> IMHO, the level that makes sense is where compatibility excludes
> fopen, fclose and fflush. I.e. you have new functions, mem_fopen()
> and mem_fclose() and do not allow fflush(). Pluse, you add few more
> functions or macros for direct access to buffer.

POSIX defines fmemopen(), similar to fopen().

FILE *fmemopen(void *restrict buf, size_t max_size, const char *restrict mode);

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */