[cfe-dev] [libcxx]handling missing linux implementations

[Ruben Van Boxem]

> On 15.02.2011, at 19:03, Howard Hinnant wrote:
>
> > I think this is a really promising direction.  What we need to know now is:  How available is uselocale on the platforms that this audience wants to port libc++ to?  Does just Ubuntu have it?  Other linux platforms?  Windows?
>
> The Microsoft CRT has _l versions of most functions, but prefixed with another underscore (so, for example, _wctomb_l), so there should be no need for uselocale. Which it doesn't have.

It would be good to also keep Windows in mind. I think a lot of people
would like to see libcxx on Windows!

If there are Linux-Windows compatible CRT/glibc implementations, I
think it would be profitable for both platforms (and perhaps even for
Mac) to have a common implementation. It seems most locale stuff is
compatible enough (ignoring function and macro naming) to write common
code.

Ruben