On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:37:13PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:24:05AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 07:53:16AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > > One of those changes was to stop using the shell's own private isalpha() > > > macros (they have different names - and "stop using" meant to redefine > > > them > > > in terms of <ctype.h> and isalpha() etc.) > > > > We can also switch to using isalpha_l and friends with explicit C > > locale. > > For the C locale you want isalpha_C() that uses the C locale without > doing any kind of locale lookup. > ie functions that just index a const global ctype[] data array.
That's essentially what isalpha_l can be doing, it just doesn't have inlining (yet). Joerg
