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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:06:02 -0300
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Subject: Re: bug in mbrtowc?
From: Pedro Izecksohn <pedro DOT izecksohn AT gmail DOT com>
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  To initialize wchar_t wc=3D(wchar_t)0; may also help.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Andy Koppe<andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 2009/7/28 Pedro Izecksohn:
>> =C2=A0The bug is in O.P.'s code as &s is not being passed to mbrtowc.
>
> From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/mbrtowc.html:
> "If ps is a null pointer, the mbrtowc() function shall use its own
> internal mbstate_t object, which shall be initialized at program
> start-up to the initial conversion state."
>
> The test also fails when passing &s instead. (I'd accidentally left in
> the local mb_state.)
>
> Andy

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