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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e613a140 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/mbsrtowcs.3 @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH mbsrtowcs 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +mbsrtowcs \- convert a multibyte string to a wide-character string +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.PP +.BI "size_t mbsrtowcs(wchar_t " dest "[restrict ." len "], const char **restrict " src , +.BI " size_t " len ", mbstate_t *restrict " ps ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +If +.I dest +is not NULL, the +.BR mbsrtowcs () +function converts the +multibyte string +.I *src +to a wide-character string starting at +.IR dest . +At most +.I len +wide characters are written to +.IR dest . +The shift state +.I *ps +is updated. +The conversion is effectively performed by repeatedly +calling +.I "mbrtowc(dest, *src, n, ps)" +where +.I n +is some +positive number, as long as this call succeeds, and then incrementing +.I dest +by one and +.I *src +by the number of bytes consumed. +The conversion can stop for three reasons: +.IP \[bu] 3 +An invalid multibyte sequence has been encountered. +In this case, +.I *src +is left pointing to the invalid multibyte sequence, +.I (size_t)\ \-1 +is returned, +and +.I errno +is set to +.BR EILSEQ . +.IP \[bu] +.I len +non-L\[aq]\e0\[aq] wide characters have been stored at +.IR dest . +In this case, +.I *src +is left pointing to the next +multibyte sequence to be converted, +and the number of wide characters written to +.I dest +is returned. +.IP \[bu] +The multibyte string has been completely converted, including the +terminating null wide character (\[aq]\e0\[aq]), which has the side +effect of bringing back +.I *ps +to the +initial state. +In this case, +.I *src +is set to NULL, and the number of wide +characters written to +.IR dest , +excluding the terminating null wide character, is returned. +.PP +If +.I dest +is NULL, +.I len +is ignored, +and the conversion proceeds as above, +except that the converted wide characters are not written out to memory, +and that no length limit exists. +.PP +In both of the above cases, +if +.I ps +is NULL, a static anonymous +state known only to the +.BR mbsrtowcs () +function is used instead. +.PP +The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least +.I len +wide +characters at +.IR dest . +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR mbsrtowcs () +function returns the number of wide characters that make +up the converted part of the wide-character string, not including the +terminating null wide character. +If an invalid multibyte sequence was +encountered, +.I (size_t)\ \-1 +is returned, and +.I errno +set to +.BR EILSEQ . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lb lb lbx +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR mbsrtowcs () +T} Thread safety T{ +.na +.nh +MT-Unsafe race:mbsrtowcs/!ps +T} +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR mbsrtowcs () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.PP +Passing NULL as +.I ps +is not multithread safe. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR iconv (3), +.BR mbrtowc (3), +.BR mbsinit (3), +.BR mbsnrtowcs (3), +.BR mbstowcs (3) |