Re: gawk mbstate_t problem on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Michael,
        I think we agree in practical applications, see the other mail.

This mail discusses an unimportant theoretical detail:

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:23:59PM -0500, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> I am looking at the Single Unix Specification version 3.
> mbrtowc is mandatory, but mbstate_t is an XSI extension, and is
> available only if _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined.
> 
>   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/wchar.h.html

My interpretation of this page is that mbstate_t is mandatory.
The ``[Option Start]'' tag is in the middle of paragraph, suggesting
that only the second sentence, speaking about ``more than 2 levels'' is
an XSI extension.

But even if my interpretation were wrong, and mbstate_t were optional,
I'd still call the situation ``broken'' though it would be conforming
to the broken standard.

> And the HP documentation is here:
>   http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-3605/00/00/1-con.html

I wasn't able to get this page.  Perhaps you should try to discuss the
issue with them, if you are willing to help them.

> readline already implements proposal (B), but it has a glitch in the
> implementation.

It must be tricky and I wouldn't wish to struggle with this.

Stepan