load of _l suffixed versions of various standard library functions that use
the global locale, making them take an explicit locale parameter. Also
adds support for per-thread locales. This work was funded by the FreeBSD
Foundation.
Please test any code you have that uses the C standard locale functions!
Reviewed by: das (gdtoa changes)
Approved by: dim (mentor)
loop pointed out by cognet@ that occurs when calling strtod() with a
string representing a number between DBL_MAX and 2*DBL_MAX, when the
rounding mode is anything other than the default.
says they are never supposed to, and the fact that they did could
cause apps that run with unmasked FP exceptions to SIGFPE after a
scanf() or strtod(). The vendor stated that he will not be fixing
this, citing portability concerns.
