On mingw, I'm also seeing this test failure: test-wcsrtombs.c:69: assertion failed FAIL: test-wcsrtombs1.sh
This fixes it, by using the gnulib replacement (and without causing a regression on HP-UX 11). 2011-02-12 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wcsrtombs: Work around bug on native Windows. * m4/wcsrtombs.m4 (gl_WCSRTOMBS_NULL): Test against mingw bug. * lib/wcsrtombs.c (rpl_wcsrtombs): When dest is NULL, pass SIZE_MAX instead of len. * doc/posix-functions/wcsrtombs.texi: Document mingw bug. --- doc/posix-functions/wcsrtombs.texi.orig Sat Feb 12 20:50:37 2011 +++ doc/posix-functions/wcsrtombs.texi Sat Feb 12 20:29:24 2011 @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ This function may set the source pointer to NULL before NUL terminating the destination string on some platforms: OSF/1 5.1. @item +This function does not ignore the length argument if the destination argument is NULL on some platforms: +mingw. +@item This function updates the source pointer also if the destination argument is NULL on some platforms: HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1. @end itemize --- lib/wcsrtombs.c.orig Sat Feb 12 20:50:37 2011 +++ lib/wcsrtombs.c Sat Feb 12 20:49:43 2011 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ { const wchar_t *temp_src = *srcp; - return wcsrtombs (NULL, &temp_src, len, ps); + return wcsrtombs (NULL, &temp_src, (size_t)-1, ps); } else # endif --- m4/wcsrtombs.m4.orig Sat Feb 12 20:50:37 2011 +++ m4/wcsrtombs.m4 Sat Feb 12 20:32:20 2011 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# wcsrtombs.m4 serial 7 +# wcsrtombs.m4 serial 8 dnl Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -123,10 +123,10 @@ dnl is present. changequote(,)dnl case "$host_os" in - # Guess no on HP-UX and OSF/1. - hpux* | osf*) gl_cv_func_wcsrtombs_null="guessing no" ;; - # Guess yes otherwise. - *) gl_cv_func_wcsrtombs_null="guessing yes" ;; + # Guess no on HP-UX, OSF/1, mingw. + hpux* | osf* | mingw*) gl_cv_func_wcsrtombs_null="guessing no" ;; + # Guess yes otherwise. + *) gl_cv_func_wcsrtombs_null="guessing yes" ;; esac changequote([,])dnl if test $LOCALE_FR != none; then @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ #include <wchar.h> int main () { + int result = 0; if (setlocale (LC_ALL, "$LOCALE_FR") != NULL) { const char original[] = "B\374\337er"; @@ -152,12 +153,14 @@ if (mbstowcs (input, original, 10) == 5) { const wchar_t *src = input; - wcsrtombs (NULL, &src, 10, NULL); + size_t ret = wcsrtombs (NULL, &src, 3, NULL); + if (ret != 5) + result |= 1; if (src != input) - return 1; + result |= 2; } } - return 0; + return result; }]])], [gl_cv_func_wcsrtombs_null=yes], [gl_cv_func_wcsrtombs_null=no], -- In memoriam France Bloch-Sérazin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Bloch-Sérazin>