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Re: locale.h not POSIX-compliant



In article <20120504223106.GA27477%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>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.

Ok, let's wait until we actually have them :-)

christos



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