Is swprintf() a form of fwprintf() though? fwprintf() and wprintf() output
to single-byte streams, so the conversion is necessary there, while
swprintf() outputs to a wide buffer. Performing double conversion (to
single chars and back) seems like unnecessary work in that case (though, of
course, it's less work to implement swprintf() like that).

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 8:30 PM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 08:04:04PM -0400, Konstantin Isakov wrote:
> > Thanks for replying!
> >
> > That fixed it.
> >
> > I'm surprised, however, that this is required given that in this case
> > swprintf() operates on wchars exclusively -- taking wchar arguments and
> > producing wchar output. I'd expect that in the worst case scenario it
> would
> > have to convert from single chars to wide chars, but never the other way
> > around, so the representation requirement seems strange. That setlocale()
> > step also doesn't seem to be needed with glibc.
>
> Yes, it's not clear to me whether the glibc behavior is conforming or
> not. As specified,
>
>   In addition, all forms of fwprintf() shall fail if:
>
>   [EILSEQ]
>     A wide-character code that does not correspond
>     to a valid character has been detected.
>
>   ...
>
> The "has been detected" wording may allow for the possibility of
> ignoring the error, as glibc does, if the function is implemented such
> that no conversion takes place (or, for fwprintf, such that conversion
> is deferred until flush time) and thus no "detection" takes place. But
> it's wrong to assume the operation will succeed.
>
> In musl, there is no separate wide stdio buffering mode; conversion to
> a multibyte sequence happens at (logical) fputwc time, and in the case
> of swprintf, conversion (in this case, conversion back) to a wchar_t[]
> string occurs at flush time.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 5:50 PM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:39:35AM -0400, Konstantin Isakov wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The following program:
> > > >
> > > > ===================================
> > > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > > #include <wchar.h>
> > > >
> > > > int main()
> > > > {
> > > >   wchar_t buf[ 32 ];
> > > >
> > > >   swprintf( buf, sizeof( buf ) / sizeof( *buf ), L"ab\u00E1c" );
> > > >
> > > >   for ( wchar_t * p = buf; *p; ++p )
> > > >     printf( "%u\n", ( unsigned ) *p );
> > > >
> > > >   return 0;
> > > > }
> > > > ===================================
> > > >
> > > > With musl 1.2.2 produces the following output:
> > > > 97
> > > > 98
> > > >
> > > > The expected output is:
> > > > 97
> > > > 98
> > > > 225
> > > > 99
> > > >
> > > > With musl, only the first two characters ('a' and 'b') are
> processed, and
> > > > the string ends on a Unicode character (U+00E1, which is an 'a' with
> > > acute
> > > > accent), instead of outputting it and the last character, 'c'.
> > > >
> > > > Please CC me when replying. Thanks!
> > >
> > > You need to call setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). Otherwise the character
> > > \u00e1 is unrepresentable, because POSIX requires the C locale be
> > > single-byte and you're in the C locale until you call setlocale, and
> > > thus produces an encoding error (EILSEQ).
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
>