Major update by John Bowman.
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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
7 License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12 Library General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
16 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
17 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
19 #include <stdlib.h>
20 #include <wchar.h>
23 extern mbstate_t __no_r_state; /* Defined in mbtowc.c. */
25 /* Convert WCHAR into its multibyte character representation,
26 putting this in S and returning its length.
28 Attention: this function should NEVER be intentionally used.
29 The interface is completely stupid. The state is shared between
30 all conversion functions. You should use instead the restartable
31 version `wcrtomb'. */
32 int
33 wctomb (char *s, wchar_t wchar)
35 /* If S is NULL the function has to return null or not null
36 depending on the encoding having a state depending encoding or
37 not. This is nonsense because any multibyte encoding has a
38 state. The ISO C amendment 1 corrects this while introducing the
39 restartable functions. We simply say here all encodings have a
40 state. */
41 if (s == NULL)
42 return 1;
44 return __wcrtomb (s, wchar, &__no_r_state);