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bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support
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Aharon Robbins |
Subject: |
bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:30:54 +0300 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10 |
Me:
> >> What if
> >> the system's setlocale() actually returns NULL?
Paul:
> > Then we don't know what the locale is. Perhaps setlocale ran out of
> > memory and so returned NULL. If so, subsequent calls might use some
> > weird Turkish locale with multibyte characters. So it sounds safer to
> > assume the worst in that case.
Eric:
> This is in main(). POSIX guarantees that until setlocale() is called
> for the first time, we are in the C locale. If you were in a library, I
> could buy the argument of setlocale() returning NULL as indicative of
> some rare error. But in main(), where you are the first call, the only
> thing that a NULL return implies is that your attempt to change the
> locale had no effect, so it remains at the locale it was before, which
> is the C locale since all programs start in the C locale.
So, are we for or against my suggested change? Sounds like "for",
but I'm not sure.
Thanks,
Arnold
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Aharon Robbins, 2014/03/21
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Paul Eggert, 2014/03/21
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Aharon Robbins, 2014/03/23
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Paul Eggert, 2014/03/23
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Aharon Robbins, 2014/03/26
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Paul Eggert, 2014/03/27
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Aharon Robbins, 2014/03/27
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Paul Eggert, 2014/03/27
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Eric Blake, 2014/03/27
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support,
Aharon Robbins <=
- bug#17056: dfa.c patch for systems with no locale support, Paul Eggert, 2014/03/28