Re: [bug #24687] implicit usage of mbsinit & mbrtowc

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 17:05 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
>     In texinfo 4.13 the files gnulib/lib/mbuiter.h and
>     gnulib/lib/mbiter.h have implicit usage of the functions mbsinit()
>     and mbrtowc() without checking the HAVE_MBSINIT & HAVE_MBRTOWC
>     defines.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  What platform are you on?

An Atari system.

> Anyway, if Sergey doesn't have time to look at it, I will eventually.
> Meanwhile, patches are welcome of course :).

Sure. I'll try and look at it and send a patch. But if you beat me to
it, all the more welcome :-)

>     texinfo 4.12 did not have this problem.
> 
> Right, because it had much worse problems, like hardly supporting UTF-8
> in the first place :).

O.k, but if the system doesn't support wide characters in the first
place, it's a moot point :-)

Alan.