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diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/mbsrtowcs.3 b/lib/libc/locale/mbsrtowcs.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eaf9f90 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/locale/mbsrtowcs.3 @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Tim J. Robbins +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.Dd July 21, 2004 +.Dt MBSRTOWCS 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mbsrtowcs , +.Nm mbsnrtowcs +.Nd "convert a character string to a wide-character string (restartable)" +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In wchar.h +.Ft size_t +.Fo mbsrtowcs +.Fa "wchar_t * restrict dst" "const char ** restrict src" "size_t len" +.Fa "mbstate_t * restrict ps" +.Fc +.Ft size_t +.Fo mbsnrtowcs +.Fa "wchar_t * restrict dst" "const char ** restrict src" "size_t nms" +.Fa "size_t len" "mbstate_t * restrict ps" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn mbsrtowcs +function converts a sequence of multibyte characters pointed to indirectly by +.Fa src +into a sequence of corresponding wide characters and stores at most +.Fa len +of them in the +.Vt wchar_t +array pointed to by +.Fa dst , +until it encounters a terminating null character +.Pq Li '\e0' . +.Pp +If +.Fa dst +is +.Dv NULL , +no characters are stored. +.Pp +If +.Fa dst +is not +.Dv NULL , +the pointer pointed to by +.Fa src +is updated to point to the character after the one that conversion stopped at. +If conversion stops because a null character is encountered, +.Fa *src +is set to +.Dv NULL . +.Pp +The +.Vt mbstate_t +argument, +.Fa ps , +is used to keep track of the shift state. +If it is +.Dv NULL , +.Fn mbsrtowcs +uses an internal, static +.Vt mbstate_t +object, which is initialized to the initial conversion state +at program startup. +.Pp +The +.Fn mbsnrtowcs +function behaves identically to +.Fn mbsrtowcs , +except that conversion stops after reading at most +.Fa nms +bytes from the buffer pointed to by +.Fa src . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn mbsrtowcs +and +.Fn mbsnrtowcs +functions return the number of wide characters stored in +the array pointed to by +.Fa dst +if successful, otherwise it returns +.Po Vt size_t Pc Ns \-1 . +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn mbsrtowcs +and +.Fn mbsnrtowcs +functions will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EILSEQ +An invalid multibyte character sequence was encountered. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The conversion state is invalid. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mbrtowc 3 , +.Xr mbstowcs 3 , +.Xr multibyte 3 , +.Xr wcsrtombs 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn mbsrtowcs +function conforms to +.St -isoC-99 . +.Pp +The +.Fn mbsnrtowcs +function is an extension to the standard. |