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Diffstat (limited to 'locale/broken_cur_max.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | locale/broken_cur_max.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/locale/broken_cur_max.c b/locale/broken_cur_max.c index 0374f84a57..68aec7fd93 100644 --- a/locale/broken_cur_max.c +++ b/locale/broken_cur_max.c @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* Return number of characters in multibyte representation for current character set. - Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1996, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996. @@ -25,26 +25,26 @@ #include "localeinfo.h" -/* This is a gross hack to get borken programs running. +/* This is a gross hack to get broken programs running. ISO C provides no mean to find out how many bytes the wide character representation really uses. But it defines MB_CUR_LEN to return the information for the multi-byte character representation. Many programmers don't know the difference between the two and - thing this means the same. But assuming all characters have a size + think this means the same. But assuming all characters have a size of MB_CUR_LEN after they have been processed by `mbrtowc' is wrong. - Instead the maximal number of character used for the conversion is - MB_CURLEN. + Instead the maximum number of characters used for the conversion is + MB_CUR_LEN. It is known that some Motif applications have this problem. To cure this one has to make sure the glibc uses the function in this file instead of the one in locale/mb_cur_max.c. This can either be done by linking with this file or by using the LD_PRELOAD feature of the dynamic linker. */ -int +size_t __ctype_get_mb_cur_max (void) { - int correct_value = _NL_CURRENT_WORD (LC_CTYPE, _NL_CTYPE_MB_CUR_MAX); + size_t correct_value = _NL_CURRENT_WORD (LC_CTYPE, _NL_CTYPE_MB_CUR_MAX); - return ((int []) { 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 })[correct_value]; + return ((size_t []) { 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 })[correct_value]; } |