> -----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?
Done! The issue is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-411 -- Mark
