to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
these are POSIX 2008 (previously GNU extension) functions that are
rarely used. apparently they had never been tested before, since the
end-of-string logic was completely missing. mbsnrtowcs is used by
modern versions of bash for its glob implementation, and and this bug
was causing tab completion to hang in an infinite loop.
Rich Felker