Bug#284260: glibc: wcrtomb function returns incorrect value

[Thomas Dickey <tom@invisible-island.net>]

Package: glibc
Severity: normal


see the manpage - it says this (and the code behaves that way). But that is
incorrect.  The standard behavior does not ignore the wc parameter when s is
NULL:

       A  third  case  is  when s is NULL. In this case wc is ignored, and the
       function effectively returns  wcrtomb(buf,L'\0',ps)  where  buf  is  an
       internal anonymous buffer.

(And because it's used in ncursesw, that breaks some things that I'll have
to work around ;-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-td2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C