| I think we can borrow a code snippet from there
without any problems. If that was a problem then
Csound might have bits of code that look like
other code licensed under other licenses etc..
Victor
>
> There shouldn't be any thread issues at the moment for
> those functions. There will be issues if we go with that
> fix though whenever we go multicore with csound. Hmm... We
> can't set it globally as that's a bad assumption if csound
> gets used in the same process as another library that
> maybe should have it's locale not set to C.
>
> Taking a look dietlibc is GPL so I don't think we can take
> code from there.
>
> Not sure what is the best solution now. The thread issue
> could affect other code say if strtod or sprintf is used
> in GTK app and is called there while Csound is doing that
> temporary locale change. We could perhaps take the source
> to the standard strtod (which is LGPL) and just modify
> that and use that as our csound_strtod.
>
> steven
>
> On 10/5/07, Mike Coleman wrote:
> > Are there any issues with thread safety? (I can't
> > recall if csound uses threads.)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/5/07, Victor Lazzarini
> > > wrote: That is more or less how I thought this should
> > > be handled. We can test it after the release and
> > > if it works, add it to 5.08.
> > >
> > > Victor
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I googled around and found this code:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/printing-driver/2005/000997.html
> > > >
> > > > in that file it forces locale but restores after
> > > > needing it in the locale required, wrapping with:
> > > >
> > > > setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
> > > > [... some code that requires locale C...]
> > > > setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> > > >
> > > > Maybe we can just do that? Could even make a
> > > > wrapper function for strod, something like:
> > > >
> > > > double csound_strtod(const char *nptr, char
> > > > **endptr) { double returnValue;
> > > >
> > > > setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
> > > > returnValue = strtod(nptr, endptr);
> > > > setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> > > >
> > > > return returnValue;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > and use that.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > steven
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 10/5/07, Victor Lazzarini
> > > > > wrote: it looks like
> > > > > the way otran.c calls strtod() to check numeric
> > > > > values is buggy, because it assumes a certain
> > > > > locale and if the default encoding is changed from
> > > > ascii, say to UTF-8, then the parsing fails, >
> > > > > Some solutions were offered, one is to reimplement
> > > > > it using the dietlibc code. What do you think?
> > > > >
> > > > > Victor
> > > > > Victor Lazzarini
> > > > > Music Technology Laboratory
> > > > > Music Department
> > > > > National University of Ireland, Maynooth
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
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