------- Comment #11 from sebor at roguewave dot com 2008-01-11 15:56 ------- I think the disconnect might be in how each of us is looking at the LC_NUMERIC data. To me, it's just a bunch of values that are independent of one another. You, OTOH, seem to view it more as a set of rules described by the data (if thousands_sep == NUL then grouping doesn't matter).
The reason why I don't look at it that way is because I think the rules for the interpretation of the data are separate from the data: in C they are in sprintf and C++ in num_put. So while I agree that "NUL thousands_sep means no grouping" to stdio and to iostreams in C++, it's just one possible interpretation of the data for the specific purposes of the two libraries. There are other possible and equally valid interpretations/rules that can be drawn from it (e.g., in third party code). Finally, I'm not suggesting or even hoping that anything be done about this in libstdc++ ASAP, or necessarily at any point. I mostly just wanted to make a record of the issue (whether you consider it valid or not) and get your perspective on it, that's all :) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34733
