Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:35:27AM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> ```
> *ptr = '\0';
> 
> do
> ```
> 
> to
> 
> ```
> *ptr = '\0';
> do
> ```

Oh, I misunderstood.  I thought you meant that there might be a whitespace
change on that line, not the surrounding ones.  This is fixed in v6.

> Now I'm struggling to understand why each and every instance has its own
> nominal buffer, passed down to the implementation. All we care about is the
> result -- is there some reason not to confine the buffer declaration to the
> general implementation?

We can do that if we use a static variable, which is what I've done in v6.

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