[Bug libstdc++/39168] Incorrect interpretation of CHAR_MAX inside grouping string in monetary and numeric facets.

[paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com]

------- Comment #13 from paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com  2009-02-13 15:11 -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> Could you suggest which grouping string should be used to do such number
> representation? Or is this unachievable?

Actually \003\176 seems perfectly practical to me. In particular considering
the actual size of real numbers.

> I investigated locale support in POSIX, such number representation is achieved
> there with "\003\177". It seems strange for me that similar mechanism is not
> work with C++ locales.

POSIX seems a good point, probably you should have mentioned it much earlier.
Let's hear Martin again, then. Certainly, however, I'm concerned about having a
behavior different from all the other implementations mentioned by Martin.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39168