mbstowcs(3) may not return -1
David Demelier
demelier.david at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 15:42:49 UTC 2012
On 21/06/2012 14:55, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 21 June 2012 16:38, David Demelier<demelier.david at 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 -1 if an invalid
>> multibyte character was encountered.
>>
>> Since size_t is unsigned, it can't returns -1.
>
> 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 SIZE_MAX - 1 then, right?
--
David Demelier
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