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| author | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-11-09 10:21:01 +0000 |
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| committer | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-11-09 10:21:01 +0000 |
| commit | 54019304416837df08c2ee481ee0dc961073a2d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ec0566eb5ffcaf2f2ca34ea574fbbdd12e56e78 /lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 | |
| parent | 266f7b288a136a72ef968cfdef5a35e55240822b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-54019304416837df08c2ee481ee0dc961073a2d9.zip FreeBSD-src-54019304416837df08c2ee481ee0dc961073a2d9.tar.gz | |
Describe the `n' and `ps' arguments to mbrlen().
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 b/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 index d7d5b1c..d9d522f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 +++ b/lib/libc/locale/mbrlen.3 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ -.Dd October 4, 2002 +.Dd November 11, 2002 .Dt MBRLEN 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -40,7 +40,22 @@ The .Fn mbrlen function determines the the number of bytes constituting the multibyte character sequence pointed to by -.Fa s . +.Fa s , +examining at most +.Fa n +bytes. +.Pp +The +.Ft mbstate_t +argument, +.Fa ps , +is used to keep track of the shift state. +If it is +.Dv NULL , +.Fn mbrlen +uses an internal, static +.Ft mbstate_t +object. .Pp It is equivalent to: .Pp |
