Blame locale/broken_cur_max.c

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/* Return number of characters in multibyte representation for current
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   character set.
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   Copyright (C) 1996-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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   Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
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   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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   Lesser General Public License for more details.
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   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
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   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
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#include <langinfo.h>
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#include <locale.h>
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#include <stdlib.h>
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#include "localeinfo.h"
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/* This is a gross hack to get broken programs running.
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   ISO C provides no mean to find out how many bytes the wide
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   character representation really uses.  But it defines MB_CUR_LEN to
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   return the information for the multi-byte character representation.
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   Many programmers don't know the difference between the two and
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   think this means the same.  But assuming all characters have a size
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   of MB_CUR_LEN after they have been processed by `mbrtowc' is wrong.
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   Instead the maximum number of characters used for the conversion is
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   MB_CUR_LEN.
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   It is known that some Motif applications have this problem.  To
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   cure this one has to make sure the glibc uses the function in this
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   file instead of the one in locale/mb_cur_max.c.  This can either be
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   done by linking with this file or by using the LD_PRELOAD feature
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   of the dynamic linker.  */
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size_t
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__ctype_get_mb_cur_max (void)
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{
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  union locale_data_value u;
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  u.string = nl_langinfo (_NL_CTYPE_MB_CUR_MAX);
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  return ((size_t []) { 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 })[u.word];
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}