From a35dc6bc6815b5ae077b9ce38e76bfd509c6cabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Opalach <andrew@akon.city>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:48:15 -0400
Subject: wstr: Cleanup conversion functions

Signed-off-by: Andrew Opalach <andrew@akon.city>
---
 include/al/wstr.h | 30 ++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

(limited to 'include')

diff --git a/include/al/wstr.h b/include/al/wstr.h
index 70dccff..4c37453 100644
--- a/include/al/wstr.h
+++ b/include/al/wstr.h
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ static inline bool al_wstr_from_cstr(wstr *w, char *c)
 #ifdef AL_HAVE_WIDE_STRING
     mbstate_t mbstate = { 0 };
     size_t length = mbsrtowcs(NULL, (const char **)&c, 0, &mbstate);
-    if (length == (size_t)-1) {
-        return false;
+    bool success = length != (size_t)-1;
+    if (success) {
+        al_wstr_sized(w, (u32)(length + 1));
+        w->length = (u32)mbsrtowcs(w->data, (const char **)&c, length, &mbstate);
+        al_assert(w->length == (u32)length);
+        w->data[w->length] = L'\0';
     }
-    al_wstr_sized(w, (u32)(length + 1));
-    w->length = (u32)mbsrtowcs(w->data, (const char **)&c, length, &mbstate);
-    al_assert(w->length == (u32)length);
-    w->data[w->length] = L'\0';
-    return true;
+    return success;
 #else
     (void)c;
     (void)w;
@@ -103,10 +103,8 @@ static inline void al_wstr_from_str(wstr *w, str *s)
     al_free(c_str);
 }
 
-// This is horrible.
 static inline bool al_str_from_wstr(str *s, wstr *w)
 {
-    // This is broken on Windows. Locale issue?
 #ifdef AL_HAVE_WIDE_STRING
     wstr copy;
     // We have to make a copy in case w->length is less than the
@@ -115,15 +113,15 @@ static inline bool al_str_from_wstr(str *s, wstr *w)
     wchar_t *copy_data = copy.data;
     mbstate_t mbstate = { 0 };
     size_t length = wcsrtombs(NULL, (const wchar_t **)&copy_data, 0, &mbstate);
-    if (length == (size_t)-1) {
-        return false;
+    bool success = length != (size_t)-1;
+    if (success) {
+        al_str_sized(s, (u32)length);
+        // Excludes the null terminator.
+        s->length = (u32)wcsrtombs(s->data, (const wchar_t **)&copy_data, length, &mbstate);
+        al_assert(s->length == (u32)length);
     }
-    al_str_sized(s, (u32)length);
-    // Excludes the null terminator.
-    s->length = (u32)wcsrtombs(s->data, (const wchar_t **)&copy_data, length, &mbstate);
-    al_assert(s->length == (u32)length);
     al_wstr_free(&copy);
-    return true;
+    return success;
 #else
     (void)s;
     (void)w;
-- 
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