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And along these line: Is https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2010/msg00395.html still a problem, six years later? Otherwise I'd love to ervert this again to clean up the code. Thanks, Corinna On Jul 13 17:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi guys, > > > Along these lines: > > The ctype functions and macros use the global variable __ctype_ptr__. > That's not feasible anymore with POSIX locales which require a function > returning the current locale's ctype array pointer (we should have done > that from the start, duh!) > > Apart from Cygwin, do we have a target which has to keep the global > __ctype_ptr__ for backward compat? If not, I'll remove it in favor of > the per-locale ctype pointer. > > > Thanks, > Corinna > > > On Jul 11 14:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > tl;dr: I'm planning to remove the __part_load_locale function and > > remove all calls to it because this code never worked. > > > > Long story: > > > > I've started to work (slowly!) on POSIX-1.2008 style locale support, > > which means per-thread locales and the FOO_l functions. While looking > > into the existing code, I stumbled over the fact that __part_load_locale > > has a major bug in the locale buffer handling and could never really > > work as intended. > > > > Typically small targets only have minimal locale support, i.e. setting > > LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES works but nothing else. Those don't use > > __part_load_locale. Same for Cygwin since Cygwin uses Windows locals > > under the hood. > > > > However, every other target using newlib's *extended* locale support > > (#define __HAVE_LOCALE_INFO__) is and always was broken. > > > > So, does anybody here actually use Newlib's setlocale *and* has > > __HAVE_LOCALE_INFO__ defined, outside of Cygwin? > > > > If so, please speak up. > > > > Otherwise, I'll remove __part_load_locale and the code calling it in the > > next couple of days. > > > > I'll be already busy enough to do the groundwork and eventually to add > > the necessary changes to Cygwin. For everything else we will need a > > volunteer. -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer Red Hat
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