Paul Eggert wrote: > We can improve on that. I installed the attached two performance tweaks; > the second tweak cuts that initialization from 128 down to at most 12 > bytes on those platforms.
Based on the comments in gnulib/lib/mbrtoc16.c, I think it should better clear the first 24, not 12, bytes of the struct. Otherwise it can be in a state where mbsinit() returns true but the mbrto* functions have undefined behaviour. Bruno