Re: Alan Hourihane: [bug #24687] implicit usage of mbsinit & mbrtowc

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Bruno,

> The problem is that texinfo's info.h includes mbiter.h unconditionally,
> whereas the module description in gnulib specifies this:

Ah, that's my fault. 

> Now I see that you have 9 functions in
> texinfo/info/{display.c,session.c,window.c} which use the mbiter
> facility unconditionally, and you probably have no  
> interest in adding fallback code for older systems for each of these
> functions. 

Sure, I'd like to avoid this.

> I'll therefore extend the modules in a way that they work also on older
> systems without HAVE_MBRTOWC.
> 
> Something like this. Probably also adding replacements for btowc and mbrtowc.

Thanks, that will greatly help. Could you please push these changes?

Regards,
Sergey