mbstowcs(3) may not return -1

2012-06-21 Thread David Demelier
Hello, While reading the manpage of mbstowcs I noticed an error in the RETURN VALUES : The mbstowcs() function returns the number of wide characters converted, not counting any terminating null wide character, or -1 if an invalid multibyte character was encountered. Since

Re: mbstowcs(3) may not return -1

2012-06-21 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 21 June 2012 16:38, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, While reading the manpage of mbstowcs I noticed an error in the RETURN VALUES :     The mbstowcs() function returns the number of wide characters converted,     not counting any terminating null wide character, or

Re: mbstowcs(3) may not return -1

2012-06-21 Thread David Demelier
On 21/06/2012 14:55, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 21 June 2012 16:38, David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, While reading the manpage of mbstowcs I noticed an error in the RETURN VALUES : The mbstowcs() function returns the number of wide characters converted, not

Re: mbstowcs(3) may not return -1

2012-06-21 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 21 June 2012 19:42, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/06/2012 14:55, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 21 June 2012 16:38, David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com  wrote: Hello, While reading the manpage of mbstowcs I noticed an error in the RETURN VALUES :     The

Re: mbstowcs(3) may not return -1

2012-06-21 Thread David Demelier
On 21/06/2012 14:55, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 21 June 2012 16:38, David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, While reading the manpage of mbstowcs I noticed an error in the RETURN VALUES : The mbstowcs() function returns the number of wide characters converted, not

Re: mbstowcs(3) may not return -1

2012-06-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 4fe340ff.80...@gmail.com, demelier.da...@gmail.com writes: On 21/06/2012 14:55, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: It returns (size_t)(-1). I don't know how is it correct, but this conforms to C spec. Mm, if I understand well, since it is cast to size_t, I think the return value will be