LC_NUMERIC in awk

[Jan Stary]

Does awk really need to set and reset LC_NUMERIC?
Does it need to set locale at all?

        Jan


Index: main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/awk/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 main.c
--- main.c      22 Oct 2015 04:08:17 -0000      1.19
+++ main.c      26 Jul 2017 20:15:48 -0000
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ const char    *version = "version 20110810"
 #define DEBUG
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
-#include <locale.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <signal.h>
@@ -61,9 +60,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
        const char *fs = NULL;
 
-       setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
-       setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); /* for parsing cmdline & prog */
-
        if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath cpath proc exec", NULL) == -1) {
                fprintf(stderr, "%s: pledge: incorrect arguments\n",
                    cmdname);
@@ -185,7 +181,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
        if (!safe)
                envinit(environ);
        yyparse();
-       setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, ""); /* back to whatever it is locally */
        if (fs)
                *FS = qstring(fs, '\0');
           dprintf( ("errorflag=%d\n", errorflag) );