Re: Make check error default branch

[marco atzeri]

On 2/9/2012 11:10 AM, CdeMills wrote:
> marco atzeri-2 wrote
> > Hi Pascal,
> > there is something wrong in setting the locale for your test.
> > On cygwin "fr_FR" is a valid locale but the test is failing anyway
> >
> > $ locale -a |grep fr_FR
> > fr_FR
> > fr_FR.utf8
> > address@hidden
> >
> > $ grep -i locale config.h
> > /* Define to 1 if you have the<locale.h>  header file. */
> > #define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
> > /* Define to 1 if you have the `setlocale' function. */
> > #define HAVE_SETLOCALE 1
> >
> > octave:1>  assert(sscanf('1,2', '%f', 'fr_FR'), 1.2)
> > error: assert (sscanf ('1,2', '%f', 'fr_FR'),1.2) expected
> >    1.2000
> > but got
> >    1
> > values do not match
> Hello Marco,
> the patch I proposed actually uses C++ locale mechanism, through the "imbue"
> function. Could you try the enclosed C++ program and see it works the way it
> should ? That is, reporting "Eur" as currency, "," as decimal separator, and
> so on ?
>
> Regards
>
> Pascal
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4372381/locale_try.cpp
> locale_try.cpp

./locale_try
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted (core dumped)

I am investigating on the cygwin mailing list

Regards
Marco