From 43bcb62d987d2734111297b907ce2337e4bc5ceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Langenberger <bjl@usa.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:31:29 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add trivial flush method to BitWriter

Since it's specific to anything that implements Write,
it's attached to BitWriter rather than the BitWrite trait.
---
 src/write.rs | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/write.rs b/src/write.rs
index a0e32fe..47ac29b 100644
--- a/src/write.rs
+++ b/src/write.rs
@@ -184,6 +184,17 @@ impl<W: io::Write, E: Endianness> BitWriter<W, E> {
     pub fn into_unwritten(self) -> (u32, u8) {
         (self.bitqueue.len(), self.bitqueue.value())
     }
+
+    /// Flushes output stream to disk, if necessary.
+    /// Any partial bytes are not flushed.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// Passes along any errors from the underlying stream.
+    #[inline(always)]
+    pub fn flush(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.writer.flush()
+    }
 }
 
 /// A trait for anything that can write a variable number of