converters/iconv versioning

[Ben Woods]

FreeBSD has its own native iconv (since FreeBSD 10).

More details (including reference to commits) here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-iconv.html

Regards,
Ben

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running into in a situation with other C code where a call to iconv
> and passing in a non-const source buffer would result in a build warning.
> Others who use the same code on other platforms do not report this warning.
>
> In tracking down the issue, I have discovered that there may be a
> difference in the iconv.h header file used on FreeBSD versus Mac/Linux et
> al.
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/libiconv/libiconv-
> 30/install/iconv.h
> line 48 shows that call to iconv
> -----
> size_t iconv (iconv_t /*cd*/,
>     char ** __restrict /*inbuf*/,  size_t * __restrict /*inbytesleft*/,
>     char ** __restrict /*outbuf*/, size_t * __restrict /*outbytesleft*/);
> ----
>
> /usr/local/include/iconv.h, line 83, shows something rather different.
> Even the commentary around the code is different.
> -----
> extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, const char* * inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft,
> char* * outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
> -----
>
>
> My question is this, are we using a different or FreeBSD-specific version
> of iconv?
>
> S
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