[libc-commits] [libc] [libc] Fixed mbtowc functions (PR #150118)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

mbrtowc was not handling null destination correctly

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/150118.diff


2 Files Affected:

- (modified) libc/src/__support/wchar/mbrtowc.cpp (+2-1) 
- (modified) libc/src/wchar/mbtowc.cpp (+1-4) 


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diff --git a/libc/src/__support/wchar/mbrtowc.cpp b/libc/src/__support/wchar/mbrtowc.cpp
index 90ba934c42b69..0f730d6e6dbec 100644
--- a/libc/src/__support/wchar/mbrtowc.cpp
+++ b/libc/src/__support/wchar/mbrtowc.cpp
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ ErrorOr<size_t> mbrtowc(wchar_t *__restrict pwc, const char *__restrict s,
   }
   auto wc = char_conv.pop_utf32();
   if (wc.has_value()) {
-    *pwc = wc.value();
+    if (pwc != nullptr)
+      *pwc = wc.value();
     // null terminator -> return 0
     if (wc.value() == L'\0')
       return 0;
diff --git a/libc/src/wchar/mbtowc.cpp b/libc/src/wchar/mbtowc.cpp
index eae39ba6081f3..6d099d43da5fa 100644
--- a/libc/src/wchar/mbtowc.cpp
+++ b/libc/src/wchar/mbtowc.cpp
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ LLVM_LIBC_FUNCTION(int, mbtowc,
   if (s == nullptr)
     return 0;
   internal::mbstate internal_mbstate;
-  // temp ptr to use if pwc is nullptr
-  wchar_t buf[1];
-  auto ret =
-      internal::mbrtowc(pwc == nullptr ? buf : pwc, s, n, &internal_mbstate);
+  auto ret = internal::mbrtowc(pwc, s, n, &internal_mbstate);
   if (!ret.has_value() || static_cast<int>(ret.value()) == -2) {
     // Encoding failure
     libc_errno = EILSEQ;

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/150118


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