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[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:50:09PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Also the output must be written to a
> > string.
> 
> That would be more difficult.  The output is written in many different
> places.  Probably the only way to do with without a lot of hackery
> would be to somehow invent a FILE which wrote to a string.  Note that
> gcc's output is just assembler code which is normally passed to the
> assembler; what would you expect to do with that?

On at least glibc systems - I'm not sure if anyone else has this
interface - there's open_memstream.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery