Does awk really need to set and reset LC_NUMERIC?
Does it need to set locale at all?
Jan
Index: main.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/awk/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 main.c
--- main.c 22 Oct 2015 04:08:17 -0000 1.19
+++ main.c 26 Jul 2017 20:15:48 -0000
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ const char *version = "version 20110810"
#define DEBUG
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
-#include <locale.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
@@ -61,9 +60,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
const char *fs = NULL;
- setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
- setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); /* for parsing cmdline & prog */
-
if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath cpath proc exec", NULL) == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: pledge: incorrect arguments\n",
cmdname);
@@ -185,7 +181,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
if (!safe)
envinit(environ);
yyparse();
- setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, ""); /* back to whatever it is locally */
if (fs)
*FS = qstring(fs, '\0');
dprintf( ("errorflag=%d\n", errorflag) );
