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Martin Sebor reassigned STDCXX-411:
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Assignee: Martin Sebor
> documented money_get example output doesn't match real output
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> 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
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