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Falk Sticken wrote:
> Hi
> I am programming using gcc 3.4.4 under cygwin 1.5.25-7. Unfortunately
> using the locale class form libstdc++ with any non-default locale (e.g.
> "en", "en_US", "de", "de_DE", "french") crashes my program with a
> segmentation fault. Creating a locale with "" as argument works so.
> I tried to investigate the error with gdb, but I do not have the cygwin
> sources. It seems the error is thrown at line 77 in the iostream header
> file (include/c++/iostream).
> Might this be a bug or are locales not supported by cygwin?

Cygwin's locale implementation comes from newlib.  It only supports the
"C" locale.  See "man setlocale" for details.


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