Re: ctype, chrtbl, rune tables and POSIX2008

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

hi,

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:11:57AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> your suggestion is to add xlocale without uselocale, right?
> 
> Yes.

i'm not sure if it's a good idea because

- uselocale is acutally being used by third party code in the wild.

- uselocale is in standard.

- sometimes uselocale is the only choice.
  eg. when calling a library which internally uses locale-sensitive functions.

> 
>> is the rest of his patch ok for you?
> 
> Looking at the latest version, I don't agree with using _ all over the
> place. I think it would help to clean up dead code first -- is there a
> good reason for keeping CITRUS optional? Getting rid of that helps for
> all the patches in the area (ctype, multi-locale etc). After having only
> a single implementation, we can easily go over each function set and
> merge it individually.

the size of libc is the only reason to have it optional i'm aware of.
but i even don't know how much it makes libc smaller/bigger.

YAMAMOTO Takashi

> 
> Joerg