Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > It may detect the problem and return EINVAL.
>
> The problem is, mbrtowc() returns size_t value. Thus, any positive
> value cannot be used for error.
>
> If this is a discussion to determine new standard, I would insist
> it should return some minus value, for example, -3. Yes, errno
> should be set to EINVAL.
Don't worry: when I wrote "return EINVAL" this was just shorthand for
"return (size_t)(-1) and set errno to EINVAL".
By the way, UTF-8 is stateful as far as mbrtowc() is concerned, so
what Markus wrote about calling abort() does not constitute further
evidence of a UTF-8 conspiracy to reduce codeset-diversity.
Edmund
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