Bug 51140 – std::locale("") not working in glibc 2.3.3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bryan Forbes 2004-05-15 10:26:10 UTC]

I'm attaching a test case that does not work in gcc 3.4.  std::locale("") should use the locale in LC_ALL, but when you set LC_ALL to anything but "C" or "POSIX", this example will throw an exception.  std::locale() should take all locale's supported by setlocale().

[Comment 1 Bryan Forbes 2004-05-15 10:26:52 UTC]

Created attachment 31487 [details]
test case

exception thrown:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted

[Comment 2 Bryan Forbes 2004-05-17 15:42:36 UTC]

This seems to be a glibc bug with locales.  I'm attaching a test case that sets the locale in C and works, but the the c++ example attached earlier doesn't work.  I also have filed a bug over at glibc's bugzilla:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165

[Comment 3 Bryan Forbes 2004-05-17 15:43:06 UTC]

Created attachment 31612 [details]
C test case

[Comment 4 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-05-29 20:50:45 UTC]

gcc is broken, not glibc. the latest ebuilds should be fixed... re-open this bug if the problem still exists in gcc 3.4.0-r5