Re: locale.h not POSIX-compliant

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 03:02:00PM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Christos Zoulas 
> <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> 
> Would this address long-standing issues with perl locales and netbsd?
> http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl5-porters/167145/

No.

Joerg