[Bug libc/5950] strtold_l() segfaults on various distribution of linux

["rsa at us dot ibm dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From rsa at us dot ibm dot com  2008-03-17 17:28 -------
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <locale.h>

int main() {
    double d;
    locale_t loc_new = newlocale (LC_ALL_MASK, "C", 0);
    d = strtod_l("1234.23423", NULL, loc_new);
    return 0;
}

Compile with: gcc -Wall test.c -o test -D_GNU_SOURCE=1

I asked Andy Fong to open this bugzilla on the #glibc irc channel because the
documentation on how to use the _l form of strtod is lacking (practically
non-existant minus the one blurb in 'info libc').

>From `info libc`:

   The GNU C library also provides `_l' versions of these functions,
   which take an additional argument, the locale to use in conversion.
   *Note Parsing of Integers::.

I expected that newlocale may appear `info libc` but that's not the case either.

I'm going to ask libc-alpha if there's a suggestion for better documentation.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5950

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