iostream changes locale to format a number

[Paolo Carlini]

Stephen M.Webb wrote:

>On May 3, 2002 08:30 am, Paolo Carlini wrote:
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>>Paolo Carlini wrote:
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>>>Are you willing to contribute a patch against the current mainline
>>>libstdc++-v3 sources for public discussion (that setlocale ...
>>>setlocale pattern is present in quite a few different places) ?
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>>Let me point out, however, that, assuming your analysis is correct (I
>>believe is) the solution cannot be as simple as you seems to assume:
>>the string returned by the first setlocale must be saved! 
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>That's not correct.  The first call with an empty string will set the 
>global locale object to that of the operating environment (eg. the 
>value of the LC_ALL environment variable in a POSIX environment).
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>The remaining calls, with a NULL locale value, are simply queries.
>
/What/ exactly do you believe it's not correct? glibc2.2.5 docs? Takeshi 
analysis? Do you believe that Takeshi testcase must result in the 
reported behaviour, with a "C" locale at the end of program?
:-O
(by the way, sad to say ;-), but icc DTRT)

Paolo.