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Martin Sebor commented on STDCXX-411: ------------------------------------- See http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-stdcxx-dev/200705.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > documented money_get example output doesn't match real output > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: STDCXX-411 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-411 > Project: C++ Standard Library > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Documentation > Affects Versions: 4.1.3 > Reporter: Mark Brown > Assigned To: Martin Sebor > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:54:37 -0600 > To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: money_get example output > Mark Brown wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Out of curiosity I tried compiling and running the example from the > > money_get page with stdcxx on Linux but the output is different than the > > documentation shows. So I tried it with g++ and the output is different > > still. Is the documentation incorrect or is there a bug in the library? Can > > someone explain what the correct output should be? > > > > $ ./money_get-stdcxx > > $100.02 --> --> 0e-2175 > > $ ./money_get-g++ > > $100.02 --> --> 1.432e-3754 > > > > The example program is on this page: > > http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/doc/stdlibref/money-get.html > I think the problem is that the example code on the documentation > page doesn't set the locale. The real example (i.e., the actual > program) does: it sets it to the English US locale. The code is > here: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/stdcxx/trunk/examples/manual/moneyget.cpp > The reason why stdcxx and libstdc++ produce different output in > the default "C" locale is in all likelihood because the facet > fails to store a value in the uninitialized variable and the > example ends up writing out bogus bits. > Can you please open a new Documentation issue for this? > FWIW, copying the source code of each example program into the > docs and keeping the two in sync is a maintenance headache. We > should find a better way to do this. > One possibility for dealing with this is to get rid of the code > and replace it with a link to the .cpp file in Subversion. That > alone probably isn't the most user-friendly solution. > A variation on this approach that might be better is to run > a script on the documentation sources after checking them out > of Subversion on the Apache Web server and replace the links > mentioned above with the up-to-date source code of each example > extracted at the same time out of the repository. > Can anyone think of any other ways to keep things in sync, or > of any further improvements to the process? > Martin -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.