Re: codecvt problem

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Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com>

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Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:16:08 CST

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Seungbeom Kim wrote:

On 2011-06-17 05:42, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

This means that all "clean" initialisations
mentioned in this thread (e.g. "mbstate_t s = {};" or "mbstate_t s =
mbstate_t();") are actually not guaranteed to work.

I cannot understand why not. Can you explain it further?

1. a null pointer doesn't have to have all its bits zero
2. memset(&ptr, 0, sizeof ptr) only guarantees that all bits are zero, but
not that 'ptr' becomes a null pointer
3. above mentioned "clean" initialisations of pointers yield null pointers

With that, assuming the spec requires an initialisation with memset(),
other
initialisations where a pointer might become a null pointer are actually
not
portable, because they give a different result.

That said, I agree that this is a point where the standards could be
improved, especially in the light of what you quoted from the C standard,
where it allows a "zero-valued" object as initial state.

Uli

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