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Re: locale.h not POSIX-compliant



On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:28:49PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20120504220456.GA25754%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:40:17PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html
> >> 
> >> /usr/include/locale.h does not support some 2008 POSIX extensions to the
> >> ISO C standard.  I propose we add them per the attached patch.
> >
> >I object the patch as it is pointless.
> 
> Yes, but it is part of the standard, so what can we do?

I don't mind a proper implementation (and I have the review of the
multi-locale patch pretty high on my To Do list), but just adding the
masks is pointless.

Joerg


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