/* Convert wide string to string.
- Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2008.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#include <wchar.h>
/* Internal state used by the functions wcsrtombs() and wcsnrtombs(). */
-mbstate_t _gl_wcsrtombs_state = 0;
+mbstate_t _gl_wcsrtombs_state
+/* The state must initially be in the "initial state"; so, zero-initialize it.
+ On most systems, putting it into BSS is sufficient. Not so on MacOS X 10.3,
+ see <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-01/msg00329.html>.
+ When it needs an initializer, use 0 or {0} as initializer? 0 only works
+ when mbstate_t is a scalar type (such as when gnulib defines it, or on
+ AIX, IRIX, mingw). {0} works as an initializer in all cases: for a struct
+ or union type, but also for a scalar type (ISO C 99, 6.7.8.(11)). */
+#if defined __ELF__
+ /* On ELF systems, variables in BSS behave well. */
+#else
+ /* Use braces, to be on the safe side. */
+ = { 0 }
+#endif
+ ;