[dllthomas]

Unfortunately, I don't know of one. My recent C work has worked with text only in a very limited capacity (parsing and building packets in an ascii format - for the later, vectorized write buffers are a poor-man's ropes).

Edited to add:

Apparently there is this: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/cordh...