work on CTABLES

[pspp] / src / libpspp / message.c

diff --git a/src/libpspp/message.c b/src/libpspp/message.c
index 83c7320168eef5a8ca4cf68baaa6c129bd98dd0d..38726d9f5b4827661940d8500e9294a85b785d79 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libpspp/message.c
+++ b/src/libpspp/message.c
@@ -174,6 +174,16 @@ msg_location_merge (struct msg_location **dstp, const struct msg_location *src)
     dst->end = src->end;
 }
 
+struct msg_location *
+msg_location_merged (const struct msg_location *a,
+                     const struct msg_location *b)
+{
+  struct msg_location *new = msg_location_dup (a);
+  if (b)
+    msg_location_merge (&new, b);
+  return new;
+}
+
 struct msg_location *
 msg_location_dup (const struct msg_location *src)
 {