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Re: [PATCH] Fix example in charset.texi
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:37:53PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:33:17AM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > The example function returns the wrong variable. 'wcp' is the pointer
> > from malloc(), 'result' points at the end of the string.
>
> I think it would be better to s/\*result++/*wcp++/ instead, so that
> result describes the result.
>
OK.
2003-07-21 Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
* charset.texi: Fix example code so a valid pointer is returned.
Index: manual/charset.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/manual/charset.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -u -r1.37 charset.texi
--- manual/charset.texi 30 Jun 2002 03:35:20 -0000 1.37
+++ manual/charset.texi 22 Jul 2003 14:46:50 -0000
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
if (nbytes >= (size_t) -2)
/* Invalid input string. */
return NULL;
- *result++ = towupper (tmp[0]);
+ *wcp++ = towupper (tmp[0]);
len -= nbytes;
s += nbytes;
@}
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