GCC 8.5 Status Report (2020-03-04)

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 at 13:02, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> The test says:
>   // nl_NL chosen because it has no thousands separator (at this time).
>   locale loc_it = locale(ISO_8859(15,nl_NL));
> so no wonder that it FAILs if nl_NL now has thousands separator.

Drat. I thought we could rely on the Dutch to keep things simple,
apparently even they want to keep changing things  ;-)

> Maybe it is time for libstdc++ testsuite to create its own artificial
> locales and test against them.

Yes, maybe.

We do have a real bug here, which is that we don't support %p at all.
Even if we created our own locales that have fixed formats and don't
use %p, we're still be unable to deal with real locales that do use
%p.

Fixing all the bugs linked to
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86976 is on my TODO list
for GCC 11.