On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Freddie Unpenstein wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, james morris wrote: > >> Why is store/change/restore of locale bad? > > > There's nothing at all wrong with it in the context you > > specified -- i.e. you want to ensure that floating-point > > values written to and read from file always use '.' as the > > decimal separator. I do that in my app, gretl (also for > > reasons of portability). > > The problem would be the potential that the library may have > cached locale features under a different locale, wouldn't it?
A bigger problem is that setlocale() is non-local hence it breaks anything asynchronous, namely threads. It may not matter in a single-threaded program but it's something you should never do in a library. Yeti _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
