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Re: [PATCH 6/6] Deprecate xlocale.h and add bits/types/locale_t.h.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think __locale_t may well be one of the many interfaces that need
> > providing under implementation-namespace names for libstdc++ headers to be
> > namespace-clean and not require _GNU_SOURCE to implement standard C++
> > functionality (but I haven't checked exactly how it's used in libstdc++).
>
> I don't see any existing uses of locale_t or __locale_t under
> /usr/include/c++ but I would have no objection to adding a
> bits/types/__locale_t.h that provided *only* the impl-namespace name,
> even though nothing needs it right now.
In the GCC 6 compiler I use for building glibc, I see "typedef __locale_t
__c_locale;" in the multilib-specific bits/c++locale.h files.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com