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diff --git a/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 b/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb262b01b --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" +.\" Modified, aeb, 990824 +.\" +.TH MB_LEN_MAX 3 1999-07-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +MB_LEN_MAX \- maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <limits.h> +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B MB_LEN_MAX +macro is the upper bound for the number of bytes needed to represent a single +wide character, across all locales. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +A constant integer >= 1. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +ANSI C, POSIX.1 +.SH NOTES +The entities +.B MB_LEN_MAX +and +.B sizeof(wchar_t) +are totally unrelated. In the GNU libc, +.B MB_LEN_MAX +is typically 6 while +.B sizeof(wchar_t) +is 4. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR MB_CUR_MAX (3) |