num_get<>::_M_extract

[Ryszard Kabatek]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> > 1. At the line 258 of bits/locfacets.tcc you wrote:
> > // XXX Need to deal with discarding leading zeros for non-octal numbers!
> > 
> > The strto* functions do it. 
> > I am not sure if it is a (C) standard behaviour, but I assume it is.
> 
> Truncation should happen in _M_extract, before the strto* functions are
> called. If you do this, please add test cases to
> 27/istrinstream_formatted.cc, and make sure to test for octal and boolean
> values.
> 

If the strto* functions ignore the leading zeroes, 
why should we do it in _M_extract too?


Ryszard Kabatek
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