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[Bug libc/15459] RFE: Add |localeconv_l()| to allow porting of FreeBSD/OSX applications...
- From: "wendlin1974 at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:54:44 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/15459] RFE: Add |localeconv_l()| to allow porting of FreeBSD/OSX applications...
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- References: <bug-15459-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15459
--- Comment #11 from Wendy Llin <wendlin1974 at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #2)
> Just use
> locale_t old = uselocale (l);
> res = localeinfo (...);
> uselocale (old);
> instead. It doesn't make sense to add *_l variant to every library function.
The workaround is useless. On OSX uselocale() is expensive (~ 200 times the
time of a single malloc(100)) and adding manual code to copy the data requires
a free function which requires a API redesign.
>From a point of portability we would have to create different code paths, one
for OSX/FreeBSD/AIX/Solaris 11.1/Illumos and one for Linux. That expense
doesn't pay off.
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