Re: ieee_1003.1-2001 locale?

[jtc at acorntoolworks dot com (J.T. Conklin)]

Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> writes:
>> Is the ieee_1003.1-2001 locale support intended to work, or is it just
>> a placeholder?  I tried configuring gcc-3_3-branch with it enabled it
>> on a NetBSD/i386 machine (mostly for NLS message catalog support), but
>> it the compile failed because _GLIBCPP_NUM_CATEGORIES was not defined.
>
> Zero configurations use it by default thus the current bit rot.  If
> you got it working on mainline, then the patch would be acceptable
> without much question.  Here was the status on "20 Feb 2003":

Thanks.  There is enough bitrot I think the best way to start is to
copy generic/* over ieee1003.1-2001/* and then work to add back the
locale support bit by bit.  Adding message catalog support was easy; I
haven't yet had a chance to look at what it will take to restore the
character set conversion that was lost in the process.  Considering it
didn't even build before, it's a big step forward.

I believe this will result in a substantial amount of duplicate code
between generic/* and ieee1003.1-2001/*.  I wonder if it might be
preferable to have some conditionals in the generic code.  Changes for
adding NLS-style message catalog support were only about 100 lines, or
~40 changed, easily conditionalized, lines out of ~1600.  This may
help reduce the problem caused by it not being used by any target
configuration.  I'll have to see whether this still holds true after
the work is complete.

        --jtc

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J.T. Conklin