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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2021-03-22 13:47:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2021-03-22 13:47:44 +0100 |
| commit | 92ee1fe627850db285330dcd71a516d2e71bbfa4 (patch) | |
| tree | 023cc6964865aa6674320189264414bfefcb3e7c /doc/posix-functions | |
| parent | 1cd2761d04226b28d08fc7b52fa8f6766f84cc67 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-92ee1fe627850db285330dcd71a516d2e71bbfa4.tar.gz | |
doc: Mention an open glibc bug.
* doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi: Mention the possible out-of-range
wchar_t values returned by this function on glibc.
* doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/posix-functions')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi | 6 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi b/doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi index 897e4da942..291207ec32 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi @@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ Solaris 9. Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +In UTF-8 locales, this function may return wide characters up to 0x7FFFFFFF +(that is, beyond 0x0010FFFF) on some platforms: +@c https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2373 +@c https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26034 +glibc 2.33. +@item On Windows and 32-bit AIX platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot accommodate all Unicode characters. However, the ISO C11 function @code{mbrtoc32}, provided by Gnulib module diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi b/doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi index e7e537690b..855f825d5d 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi @@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ Android 4.4. Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +In UTF-8 locales, this function may return wide characters up to 0x7FFFFFFF +(that is, beyond 0x0010FFFF) on some platforms: +@c https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2373 +@c https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26034 +glibc 2.33. +@item This function accumulates hidden state on some platforms: glibc 2.8 (see @url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9674}). @item |