misc/146742: iconv (3) has a wrong definition according to the standards

Riccardo rmottola at users.sf.net
Thu May 20 00:00:18 UTC 2010


>Number:         146742
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       iconv (3) has a wrong definition according to the standards
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 20 00:00:17 UTC 2010
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Riccardo
>Release:        8.0
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>Description:
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**).
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