-added another mutex release to fix a bug found from a segfault

-added a safer debug buffer output method
-added ability to specify precsion for floating point conversion

source/shared_lib/include/util/conversion.h

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+// ==============================================================
+//	This file is part of Glest Shared Library (www.glest.org)
+//
+//	Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Martio Figueroa
+//
+//	You can redistribute this code and/or modify it under 
+//	the terms of the GNU General Public License as published 
+//	by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 
+//	License, or (at your option) any later version
+// ==============================================================
+
+#ifndef _SHARED_UTIL_CONVERSION_H_
+#define _SHARED_UTIL_CONVERSION_H_
+
+#include <string>
+
+using std::string;
+
+namespace Shared{ namespace Util{
+
+bool strToBool(const string &s);
+int strToInt(const string &s);
+float strToFloat(const string &s); 
+
+bool strToBool(const string &s, bool *b);
+bool strToInt(const string &s, int *i);
+bool strToFloat(const string &s, float *f);
+
+string boolToStr(bool b);
+string intToStr(int i);
+string intToHex(int i);
+string floatToStr(float f,int precsion=2);
+string doubleToStr(double f,int precsion=2);
+
+}}//end namespace
+
+#endif