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Subject: Re: C99 strftime and Related Changes
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 at Oct 31, 2004 10:05:13 pm"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > From: <ams AT ludd DOT ltu DOT se>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:27:19 +0100 (CET)
> > 
> > > It was packaged as a separate library liblocal.a containing setlocal.c
> > > and a version of strftime.c which is now identical to time/strftime.c. 
> > > It uses the DOS country information to set some locale characteristics. 
> > 
> > Hmmm... Should this be integrated into libc or not?
> 
> Are there any downsides?

Executable size, e.g. Besides growing a lot, setlocale() pulls in
itoa() and stpcpy() as well.


Right,

						MartinS