* Added function scm_str2string. Thanks to Martin Baulig.

NEWS

@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ Previously, comparing two variables with `equal?' would recursivly
 compare their values.  This is no longer done.  Variables are now only
 `equal?' if they are `eq?'.
 
+* Changes to the C interface
+
+** New function: scm_str2string
+
+This function creates a scheme string from a 0-terminated C string.  The input
+string is copied.
+
 Changes since Guile 1.4:
 
 * Changes to the distribution

THANKS

@@ -7,58 +7,7 @@ The Guile maintainer committee consists of
 
 Contributors since the last release:
 
-           Jost Boekemeier
-	    Rob Browning
-	   Will Fitzgerald
-	 Martin Grabmueller
-	   Dirk Herrmann
-	   Gary Houston
-	   Neil Jerram
-       Matthias Koeppe
-	Michael Livshin
-      Thien-Thi Nguyen
-	Keisuke Nishida
-	  Niibe Yutaka
 
 For fixes or providing information which led to a fix:
 
-	Lars J. Aas
 	 Martin Baulig
-	    Ian Bicking
-   Quetzalcoatl Bradley
-	 George Caswell
-	 Albert Chin
-	  Chris Cramer
-	  I. N. Golubev
-           Eric Hanchrow
-	Utz-Uwe Haus
-        Karl M. Hegbloom
-	 Anders Holst
-         Stefan Jahn
-      Steven G. Johnson
-	Richard Kim
-      Alexander Klimov
-	   Brad Knotwell
-	  Bruce Korb
-       Matthias Köppe
-	   Ralf Mattes
-	  Shuji Narazaki
-	Han-Wen Nienhuys
-       Bertrand Petit
-	  David Pirotte
-	 Sergey Poznyakoff
-	  Ariel Rios
-	 Julian Satchell
-	   Bill Schottstaedt
-	   Alex Shinn
-       Miroslav Silovic
-	 Daniel Skarda
-	Dale P. Smith
-	  Masao Uebayashi
-	Bernard Urban
-     Jacques A. Vidrine.
-	  Brett Viren
-	 Thomas Wawrzinek
-	Florian Weimer
-	  Keith Wright
-

TODO

@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ that user-visible changes are reflected in NEWS.
 
 - Start a new section of the NEWS file.
 
-- Start a new THANKS file.
-
 
 * Before releasing 1.10.0:
 

libguile/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-09-12  Martin Baulig  <martin@home-of-linux.org>
+
+	* strings.[ch] (scm_str2string): New function.
+
 2001-09-06  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 
 	* gc.c (scm_done_free): Always subtract size from scm_mallocated

libguile/strings.c

@@ -162,6 +162,14 @@ scm_mem2string (const char *src, size_t len)
   return s;
 }
 
+
+SCM
+scm_str2string (const char *src)
+{
+  return scm_mem2string (src, strlen (src));
+}
+
+
 SCM 
 scm_makfrom0str (const char *src)
 {

libguile/strings.h

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ extern SCM scm_makfromstrs (int argc, char **argv);
 extern SCM scm_take_str (char *s, size_t len);
 extern SCM scm_take0str (char *s);
 extern SCM scm_mem2string (const char *src, size_t len);
+extern SCM scm_str2string (const char *src);
 extern SCM scm_makfrom0str (const char *src);
 extern SCM scm_makfrom0str_opt (const char *src);
 extern SCM scm_allocate_string (size_t len);