iconv problem

[Bruno Haible]

Tobias Hunger writes:
> retval is -1, errno == E2BIG, out_buf_bound is 0, all as
> expected. But inbuf_bound is still 11 and out_buf contains a value
> of 65279. Is that what is supposed to happen? Why got out_buf
> written into but in_bound not decremented accordingly?

UTF-32 encoded streams, as specified by the RFC, start with a byte
order mark. (You didn't specify UTF-32BE or UTF-32LE, right?) So
glibc starts out by writing the byte order mark to the output region,
before consuming anything from the input region. It's all as it should
be.

Bruno