mbstowcs() contradiction

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 1 22:07:04 UTC 2009


Hello,

I've just found a contradiction in the mbstowcs() man page. It says:
"The mbstowcs() function returns ........  or -1 if an invalid multibyte 
character was encountered."

It is impossible, because its return value is size_t, which is a signed 
type. Looking on the online documentaton, I think it should return 
(size_t)-1 on error. I've also looked at the code and I think our 
implementation is standard-compliant, but could someone take another 
look, please? If someone can acknowledge I'm right, I'll update the man 
page.

Thanks,

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