iostream changes locale to format a number

[Nathan Myers]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0900, Takeshi Kobayakawa wrote:
> Some calls to iostreams seem to alter locale by calling setlocale
> system call inside. Is this a transitional problem which is going
> to be fixed when newer glibc is released, or to be fixed independently
> in libstdc++?

I agree that this is a very serious bug.

Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org