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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:22:50 +0200
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strtod()
Message-ID:  <20020127172250.B14791@phantom.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C53DB0B.6547EB76@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:48:43AM -0800
References:  <20020126162924.A7726@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <200201270453.g0R4rwi92912@green.bikeshed.org> <20020127070421.GA13415@nagual.pp.ru> <20020127003719.A38420@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <3C53DB0B.6547EB76@mindspring.com>

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hi,

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:48:43AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Chad David wrote:
> > I just noticed that if you call printf() (or anything that will call
> > localeconv()) before you call strtod() etc. it works as it should.  It
> > is the first call to localeconv() that causes errno to be updated when
> > it calls strtol().  After that localeconv() takes a short cut.  So it
> > isn't really strtod()'s problem, but localeconv()'s.
> 
> Good catch!
> 
> > The attached patch fixes this case, and probably others.  Comments?
> 
> Uh, working around the problem this way adds overhead to a
> lot of places where it wasn't before.  How about just
> initializing the shortcut completely?
> 
> Worse comes to worse, call localeconv() in a .init by abusing
> the G++ linker set that gets run to construct virtual base
> clases and template classes the first time.

Heh! I'm not a linker guru, so could you please explain problem more
deeply ? And in case if it's actually problem -- it will be fixed.

It's important now since I am going to merge many locale specific changes
to STABLE soon. And would like to have it as more clean as possible.


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