Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 23:53:30 GMT From: Riccardo <rmottola@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/146742: iconv (3) has a wrong definition according to the standards Message-ID: <201005192353.o4JNrUBq082107@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201005200000.o4K00H5E013197@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 146742 >Category: misc >Synopsis: iconv (3) has a wrong definition according to the standards >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu May 20 00:00:17 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Riccardo >Release: 8.0 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: the definition of the iconv (3) function is wrong, FreeBSD appears to adhere to the gnu iconv http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.3.html while the opengroup http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html specifies it to: size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, char **restrict inbuf, size_t *restrict inbytesleft, char **restrict outbuf, size_t *restrict outbytesleft); notice how the definition of the second parameter is not (const char**). >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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