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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60b2842 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +@node mbsnrtowcs +@section @code{mbsnrtowcs} +@findex mbsnrtowcs + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbsnrtowcs.html} + +Gnulib module: mbsnrtowcs + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 4.3.2, +HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot +accommodate all Unicode characters. +@item +The specification is not clear about whether this function should update the +conversion state when the first argument (the destination pointer) is NULL. +The glibc, MacOS X, FreeBSD implementations do update the state in this case. +For portability, when passing a NULL destination argument, it is best to pass +a pointer to a temporary copy of the conversion state. +@end itemize |