RFC: mblen() return code when n is zero
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Mon Nov 17 16:23:00 GMT 2014
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.
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