X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fmbsnrtowcs.texi;h=cc74b819c843574daf3e9bdf9db30ddf1361cb07;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;hp=916f5ecdb51cbe5dee68630aa31a1e3eaec5a1cc;hpb=6906a95bfc7fc83e4ffa7ef2f68e377157d926f7;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi b/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi index 916f5ecdb..cc74b819c 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/mbsnrtowcs.texi @@ -10,12 +10,16 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX +11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot +accommodate all Unicode characters. +@item The specification is not clear about whether this function should update the conversion state when the first argument (the destination pointer) is NULL. The glibc, MacOS X, FreeBSD implementations do update the state in this case.