On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Dave Korn wrote: > Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Richard Guenther wrote: > > > >> The testsuite should run with C locale. > > > > Unfortunately it appears there are now some systems where C no longer > > implies ASCII, causing problems for predictability of output. > > I was asked about this on another list: by "some systems", do you mean any > other than Cygwin? Are you specifically aware of any e.g. linux distros that > default to say UTF-8 in the C locale, or were you just making a general > statement since the Cygwin case proves that there "exists at least one" such > system?
It was stated on #gcc on 12 August that AIX 5.3 returns "ISO8859-1" from nl_langinfo (CODESET) in the C locale, which also causes problems for testcases that are making assertions about GCC's English-language, ASCII-charset output. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
