[STDCXX-399] codecvt.cpp example uses uninitialized mbstate_t

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.2, 4.1.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Martin Sebor
• Reporter: Martin Sebor
• Created: 30/Apr/07 19:16
• Updated: 30/Apr/07 21:03
• Resolved: 30/Apr/07 21:03

Description

Quoting from http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/tree/browse_frm/thread/85ffe366e1d65734/2276eed1d0639a15#doc_a79a047ac5f8b7a6

On Apr 30, 4:56 am, Dancefire <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Why not std::codecvt? A facet which you can obtain from a
> > locale.
>
> oops, I miss the std::codecvt. Thank you.
>
> After I tried std::codecvt, I have 2 more questions.
>
> 1) Should we initialize mbstate_t variable? And how to initialize the
> mbstate_t portable and in C++ way?
>
> Many sample code I saw on the net, didn't initialize the mbstate_t
> variable. Such as:
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/doc/stdlibref/codecvt.html#sec12
>
> std::mbstate_t state;