The C standard is imperative on that:
7.28.1 ... If ps is a null pointer, each function uses its own internal
mbstate_t object instead, which is initialized at program startup to
the initial conversion state;
and these functions are also not supposed to implicitly use the state of
the wchar.h functions:
7.29.6.3 ... The implementation behaves as if no library function calls
these functions with a null pointer for ps.
Previously this resulted in two bugs.
- The functions c16rtomb and mbrtoc16 would crash when called with ps
set to null.
- The function mbrtoc32 used the private state of mbrtowc, which it
is not allowed to do.
size_t c16rtomb(char *restrict s, char16_t c16, mbstate_t *restrict ps)
{
+ static unsigned internal_state;
+ if (!ps) ps = (void *)&internal_state;
unsigned *x = (unsigned *)ps;
wchar_t wc;
size_t mbrtoc16(char16_t *restrict pc16, const char *restrict s, size_t n, mbstate_t *restrict ps)
{
+ static unsigned internal_state;
+ if (!ps) ps = (void *)&internal_state;
unsigned *pending = (unsigned *)ps;
if (!s) return mbrtoc16(0, "", 1, ps);
size_t mbrtoc32(char32_t *restrict pc32, const char *restrict s, size_t n, mbstate_t *restrict ps)
{
+ static unsigned internal_state;
+ if (!ps) ps = (void *)&internal_state;
if (!s) return mbrtoc32(0, "", 1, ps);
wchar_t wc;
size_t ret = mbrtowc(&wc, s, n, ps);