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Re: strfmon in the C locale
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Eric Blake |
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Re: strfmon in the C locale |
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Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:32:36 -0500 |
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On 09/23/2017 11:01 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
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> So, this implementation of strfmon is very standards-compliant.
> But without a distinction between positive and negative values,
> and without a visible decimal separator, this behaviour is useless,
> or even dangerous (if a programmer was not aware of this behaviour
> and has not worked around it).
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> I would vote for removing strfmon() and strfmon_l() from POSIX.
Are you going to open up a ticket on
http://austingroupbugs.net/main_page.php with your proposal of
deprecating the interfaces?
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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