Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  6 09:06, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > However, just before the application's main() is called, the locale is
> > set back to "C", see
> > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc.diff?r1=1.352&r2=1.353&cvsroot=src&f=h
> 
> Hmm. "before main()" huh?  Is that *before*, or *after*, C++ static
> initializers are called?  If it's after, then that could be a problem,
> at least for languages that support such things. (C++, Java?)

The global ctors functions are called before the environment is
initialized.  In that state the locale is always "C".

Note that the locale is only changed temporarily when the environment is
read from a non-Cygwin parent.  This doesn't affect forked Cygwin
processes, nor Cygwin processes exec'ed from a Cygwin parent.


Corinna

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