NAME

getwchar — get a wide character from a stdin stream

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

wint_t getwchar(void);

DESCRIPTION

The getwchar() getwc(stdin) . function is equivalent to

RETURN VALUE

Refer to fgetwc(3) .

ERRORS

Refer to fgetwc(3) .

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

If the value returned by getwchar() is stored into a variable of type wchar_t and then compared against the wint_t macro WEOF, the comparison need never succeed.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

fgetwc(3) , getwc(3) , <wchar.h> .

DERIVATION

Derived from the MSE working draft.