Who is responsible for locale support?

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Sun Mar 19 10:05:45 PST 2006


On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Steven J. Hill wrote:

> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 
> > how is this a bug in uClibc ?  if locale support is disabled, then all locale 
> > symbols should be disabled ... libstdc++ should follow suite
> >
> But it doesn't. Originally, the variable '__global_locale' was defined
> regardless of locale support. However, after it was changed to only be
> defined when locale support was enabled, no one apparently went back to
> see if it was possible to build a toolchain with locale support disabled.
> I guess I can thank Peter for yet again breaking things. My NPTL release
> is being delayed because of other people's sloppiness.
> 
> -Steve

The sloppiness here is when the first gcc-4.1.0 200-* patch was created, 
removing the wchar test instead of fixing it properly

Peter

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