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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: misc/146742: iconv (3) has a wrong definition according to the
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The following reply was made to PR standards/146742; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, gabor@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/146742: iconv (3) has a wrong definition according to the standards
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:39:54 +1000

 > the definition of the iconv (3) function is wrong, FreeBSD appears to adhere to the gnu iconv
 > http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.3.html
 > 
 > while the opengroup
 > 
 > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html
 > 
 > specifies it to:
 > size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, char **restrict inbuf,
 >        size_t *restrict inbytesleft, char **restrict outbuf,
 >        size_t *restrict outbytesleft);
 > 
 > notice how the definition of the second parameter is not (const char**).
 
 Gabor@ might want to have his say on this one.
 
 Edwin
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