[Live-devel] sprintf and radix char.

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 27-okt-2005, at 2:42, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> I thought this was working, but in recent weeks we got reports it
>> wasn't. We tried all sorts of things, but it wasn't coming together.
>> In the end we had to resolve to plain C code, and that WAS working.
>>
>
> I don't like the idea of throwing out (what appears to be)  
> perfectly good code, without an understanding of what exactly is  
> wrong with it.  I thought that the C++-based solution that I wrote  
> (using heap-allocated "Locale" objects, and relying on the fact  
> that the object's destructor automatically gets called when we  
> leave the scope) was quite elegant, so I'd like to know why it's  
> not working.
>
> Are there problems in some C++ implementations with the "Locale"  
> destructor not being called when it's supposed to, or is something  
> else going on??

It looks  more to me that the environment is only changed for the  
current and new classes, not for the parent class.
But i have no idea of the exact cause, and neither does anyone else  
in the team.

DJ