http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41495
--- Comment #10 from Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail dot com> 2011-05-23 18:36:29 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > I only work on libstdc++ in my spare time and I lack the time, not the > motivation :) Alrighty! > There are some others who expressed an interest in improving the locale code > for Darwin and they might be interested. See the libstdc++ mailing list > archives for December 2010, January, February and May 2011 for various threads > on the subject. I'll check this out, thanks for the info. > > > I think a better long term plan is to write a new locale model based on > > > the > > > POSIX 2008 API, as that could be common to more platforms and would > > > provide > > > thread-safety and the other advantages of the GNU/Linux code. > > > > Would this be a significant volume of work? > > I don't *think* so, the GNU locale model already uses those APIs as they've > been in glibc for ages, so a good starting point would be copying the GNU code > and fixing it up a bit to replace anything GNU-specific with the POSIX.1-2008 > equivalent. Someone already started doing that for Darwin earlier this month. Great, again thanks for the info. I'll make contact with the darwin folks. Cheers, Alasdair