Locales in C effect read in Fortran

[Janne Blomqvist]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Dirk Spelsberg <dsp@chemie.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>> It took me quite a while to sort this out. The program attached works with
>> English locales but not with German ones. Apparently the decimal point is
>> replaced by a decimal comma somewhere during the read.
>
> I don't think this is a bug as your locale says the decimal separator
> is a comma.
> This is also true when using scanf too.

It's a bug as the Fortran standard has no concept of locales, and
explicitly says that the decimal separator is ".", unless one uses the
decimal='comma' (or however it was spelled?) I/O specifier. But
anyway, as I mentioned to the OP, this issue is fixed as of GCC 5.

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Janne Blomqvist