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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbsrtowcs.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbsrtowcs.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d218a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbsrtowcs.texi @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +@node mbsrtowcs +@section @code{mbsrtowcs} +@findex mbsrtowcs + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbsrtowcs.html} + +Gnulib module: mbsrtowcs + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.00, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, mingw, Interix 3.5. +@item +This function does not work on some platforms: +HP-UX 11, Solaris 11 2010-11. +@item +This function does not work when the first argument is NULL on some platforms: +mingw. +@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 implementation does not update the state in this case; the MacOS X +and FreeBSD implementations do. +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 |