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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/web2c/lib/chartostring.c b/Build/source/texk/web2c/lib/chartostring.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8f98feb7dac --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/web2c/lib/chartostring.c @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +/* chartostring.c: change a character (i.e., an integer) to a + one-character string. + +Written in 1994 by Karl Berry. Public domain. */ + +#include "config.h" + +/* This is needed because web2c turns the Pascal construct 'x' into the + C character constant 'x', not the string "x". And we need to keep it + that way because that's how xord is initialized, etc. But sometimes + we want one-character strings -- e.g., in tangle.ch and weave.ch. + There's no real alternative to wasting the two bytes of memory (plus + malloc overhead) here, but it doesn't matter. */ + +string +chartostring P1C(char, ch) +{ + string str = (string)xmalloc (2); + str[0] = ch; + str[1] = 0; + return str; +} |