Fri Jul 5 12:22:51 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@delasyd.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
[glibc/history.git] / stdlib / mbstowcs.c
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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1996 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
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15 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
16 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
17 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
19 #include <stdlib.h>
20 #include <wchar.h>
23 extern mbstate_t __no_r_state; /* Defined in mbtowc.c. */
25 /* Convert the string of multibyte characters in S to `wchar_t's in
26 PWCS, writing no more than N. Return the number written,
27 or (size_t) -1 if an invalid multibyte character is encountered.
29 Attention: this function should NEVER be intentionally used.
30 The interface is completely stupid. The state is shared between
31 all conversion functions. You should use instead the restartable
32 version `mbsrtowcs'. */
33 size_t
34 mbstowcs (wchar_t *pwcs, const char *s, size_t n)
36 mbstate_t save_shift = __no_r_state;
37 size_t written;
39 written = mbsrtowcs (pwcs, s, n, &__no_r_state);
41 /* Restore the old shift state. */
42 __no_r_state = save_shift;
44 /* Return how many we wrote (or maybe an error). */
45 return written;