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Date: | Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:25:46 +0000 (UTC) |
From: | Eric Blake <ericblake AT comcast DOT net> |
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> (Alternatively, making them reentrant by making the locale settings > part of the REENT structure might be rather useful actually, for at > least two reasons: different threads could use different locales, and > you could convert between different charsets using the the _r > versions > of the mb functions without having to switch locale all the time.) This is the correct fix. Besides, it paves the way towards implementing the *_l re-entrant locale-based functions added in POSIX 2008. But you should be asking this on the newlib list. -- Eric Blake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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