On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Tobias Burnus wrote: > It sounds like the following bug: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47007 > > libgfortran calls libc's strtof/strtod/strtold/libquadmath's strtoflt128 > to convert the number. And that function is locale dependent - but > gfortran assumes that it uses a "." as decimal separator. > > It's surely fixable - the question is only what's the best approach. I > see the following possibilities: > > - Ignore the issue (not the best approach but the simplest. Also known > as: The compiler user has to handle it.) > - libgfortran should have its own parsing of the string. > - (Temporarily) reset the local setting before calling > strtof/strtod/strtold/libquadmath > - Convert the input to the used locale before calling > strtof/strtod/strtold/libquadmath
* On systems using glibc, use the functions such as strtod_l that take an explicit locale argument. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
