Re: Solaris GCC maintainer question...

[Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>]

tscheresky@micron.com writes:

> I posted the following question about GCC and Solaris locale support to
> both gcc-help and libstdc++:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2009-09/msg00212.html
> 
> It was recommended I try darwin, or ieee_1003.1-2001 for
> --enable-clocale when building GCC.  None of these suggestions worked.
> See here for details:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2009-09/msg00238.html
> 
> But what I would really like to know, from the Solaris GCC maintainer,
> is it a fact that the locale model for libstdc++ is 'generic', for all
> versions of GCC from 3.4.x to 4.4.1, on Solaris 8 or newer, and there
> will be no support for locales other than C, and POSIX?  If so, what's
> the likelihood that this will change in the future?

Ian Taylor already filed PR libstdc++/41495 for the fact that
--enable-clocale=ieee_1003.1-2001 doesn't build.  I'll try the trivial
patch for this (defining _GLIBCXX_NUM_CATEGORIES as 0) and see how far this
gets me.  If this produces strictly better results than generic, we can
change the libstdc++-v3 default for Solaris (maybe depending on the Solaris
version if it doesn't work everywhere).

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University