17 Jul
2011
17 Jul
'11
9:23 p.m.
On Jul 17, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
Mac OS X is of particular interest because by default locale("") does fall, and the Apple folks have said in the past that they won't fix it. It fails on my Mac mini in the default configuration. Presumably the Darwin regression test machine has something beyond the default configuration.
Going forward libc++ on Mac OS X (http://libcxx.llvm.org/) will support a vast array of locales, including "". This is based on BSD's xlocale API: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPa... The behavior of "" mimics that of "" passed to newlocale: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPa... Howard