NAME

wcscat — concatenate two wide-character strings

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcscat(wchar_t *restrict ws1, const wchar_t *restrict ws2);


DESCRIPTION

^[CX] The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2024 defers to the ISO C standard.

The wcscat() function shall append a copy of the wide-character string pointed to by ws2 (including the terminating null wide-character code) to the end of the wide-character string pointed to by ws1. The initial wide-character code of ws2 shall overwrite the null wide-character code at the end of ws1. If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.

^[CX] The wcscat() function shall not change the setting of errno on valid input.

RETURN VALUE

The wcscat() function shall return ws1; no return value is reserved to indicate an error.

ERRORS

No errors are defined.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

wcsncat

XBD <wchar.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 4. Derived from the MSE working draft.

Issue 6

The Open Group Corrigendum U040/2 is applied. In the RETURN VALUE section, s1 is changed to ws1.

The wcscat() prototype is updated for alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard.

Issue 8

Austin Group Defect 448 is applied, adding a requirement that wcscat() does not change the setting of errno on valid input.