Re: regex functions and MBS_SUPPORT

[Bob Ham]

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 06:06, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> > This implies to me that, if glibc is compiled with MBS_SUPPORT defined,
> > the regex functions only deal with wchar_t types and if it's not, they
> > only deal with char types.  Is this correct?
> 
> If MBS_SUPPORT is used - which is always set for glibc, you get both
> wchar_t and char types.

In that case, I'm confused as to what the user provides to regcomp();
how does regcomp() deal with possibly being given a MBS and possibly
being given a straight char[] string?  What does MB_CUR_MAX signify?

Bob

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