mbsinit(3)

mbsinit3

Determine conversion object status

Usage

#include <wchar.h>

int

mbsinit(const mbstate_t *ps);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The mbsinit() function determines whether the mbstate_t object pointed to by ps describes an initial conversion state.

Return values

The mbsinit() function returns non-zero if ps is NULL or describes an initial conversion state, otherwise it returns zero.

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.0–5.2.1
  2. 5.3–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–16.0

Standards

The mbsinit() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”).

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.