Re: Possible eval builtin speedup?

[Nicolas]

Thanks for your answer.

>  > Nevertheless, I don't really understand the purpose of this function.
>  > Is it supposed to bypass a bug in mbsrtowcs (defined in wchar.h), as
>  > said in the following commentaries?
>  > /* xmbsrtowcs.c -- replacement function for mbsrtowcs */
>  > /* On some locales (ex. ja_JP.sjis), mbsrtowc doesn't convert 0x5c to 
> U<0x5c>.
>  >    So, this function is made for converting 0x5c to U<0x5c>. */
>  > If so, why isn't it corrected to wchar.h?
>
>
> I don't really understand this question.

What is the role of xmbsrtowcs? Why doesn't mbsrtowcs convert 0x5c to U<0x5c>?