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Re: RFC: mblen() return code when n is zero
- From: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:57:45 +0530
- Subject: Re: RFC: mblen() return code when n is zero
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On 11/17/2014 09:53 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan wrote:
To get clarified on previous comments,What should mblen (mblen() calls
__mbrtowc() internally) return for the above testcase?
There was no "above testcase" in your email, but I suppose mblen and
mbtowc should return -1 when given empty inputs, as in this case the
leading bytes of the input buffer do not form a valid multibyte
character. Although POSIX doesn't say what errno value to use, EILSEQ
doesn't seem appropriate here. What errno values do other C libraries
use? I'd be guided by that.
For testcase please refer:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00191.html
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Thanks
Rajalakshmi S