'\" te .\" Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved Portions Copyright (c) 2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved .\" Sun Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation. Original documentation from The Open Group can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/. .\" The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. In the following statement, the phrase "this text" refers to portions of the system documentation. Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the Sun OS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html. This notice shall appear on any product containing this material. .TH getwc 3C "24 Jul 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "Standard C Library Functions" .SH NAME getwc \- get wide character from a stream .SH SYNOPSIS .LP .nf #include #include \fBwint_t\fR \fBgetwc\fR(\fBFILE\fR \fI*stream\fR); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .sp .LP The \fBgetwc()\fR function is equivalent to \fBfgetwc\fR(3C), except that if it is implemented as a macro it may evaluate \fIstream\fR more than once, so the argument should never be an expression with side effects. .SH RETURN VALUES .sp .LP Refer to \fBfgetwc\fR(3C). .SH ERRORS .sp .LP Refer to \fBfgetwc\fR(3C). .SH USAGE .sp .LP This interface is provided to align with some current implementations and with possible future \fBISO\fR standards. .sp .LP Because it may be implemented as a macro, \fBgetwc()\fR may treat incorrectly a \fIstream\fR argument with side effects. In particular, \fBgetwc\fR(*\fIf\fR\|++) may not work as expected. Therefore, use of this function is not recommended; \fBfgetwc\fR(3C) should be used instead. .SH ATTRIBUTES .sp .LP See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .sp .TS tab() box; lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) . \fBATTRIBUTE TYPE\fR\fBATTRIBUTE VALUE\fR _ Interface StabilityStandard _ MT-LevelMT-Safe .TE .SH SEE ALSO .sp .LP \fBfgetwc\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)