[STDCXX-263] SIGABRT in locale("") after setting LC_ALL to pathname of own locale

• Type: Bug
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.2
• Component/s: 22. Localization

Environment

all

• Severity: Incorrect Behavior
• Assignee: Martin Sebor
• Reporter: Martin Sebor
• Created: 27/Jul/06 20:18
• Updated: 12/Nov/08 03:18

Description

$ ../bin/localedef -w -f /nfs/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/etc/nls/charmaps/ISO-8859-1 -i /nfs/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/etc/nls/src/de_DE de_DE.ISO-8859 && cat t.cpp && make t && LC_ALL=./de_DE.ISO-8859 ./t
#include <cassert>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <exception>
#include <ios>
#include <locale>

int main ()
{
    try {
        std::locale::global (std::locale (""));

        typedef std::num_put<char, char*> NumPut;

        std::ios strm (0);

        NumPut np;

        char buf [40] = "";

        np.put (buf, strm, ' ', 123.456);
        std::printf ("%s\n", buf);
        assert (0 == std::strcmp ("123,456", buf));
    }
    catch (std::exception &ex) {
        std::fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", ex.what ());
        return 1;
    }
}

xlc_r -c -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/include/ansi -D_RWSTDDEBUG    -D_RWSTD_USE_CONFIG -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/include -I/build/sebor/xlc-8.0-15S/include -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/examples/include  -F/package/1/ppc64/compilers/ibm/va80/vac.cfg -g  -q64  -qtemplateregistry=t.ti   t.cpp
xlc_r t.o -o t -F/package/1/ppc64/compilers/ibm/va80/vac.cfg -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/include/ansi -D_RWSTDDEBUG    -D_RWSTD_USE_CONFIG   -q64  -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/include/ansi -D_RWSTDDEBUG    -D_RWSTD_USE_CONFIG -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/include -I/build/sebor/xlc-8.0-15S/include -I/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/examples/include  -qtemplateregistry=t.ti -L/build/sebor/xlc-8.0-15S/lib -lstd15S  -lxlopt -lxl -libmc++ -lsupc++ -lgcc -lc -qnostaticlink=libgcc -lm
/usr/bin/ld: /build/sebor/xlc-8.0-15S/lib/libstd15S.a(exception.o)(.debug_info+0xcd99): R_PPC64_ADDR64 used with TLS symbol __rw_what_refcnt
/usr/bin/ld: /build/sebor/xlc-8.0-15S/lib/libstd15S.a(exception.o)(.debug_info+0xcdc0): R_PPC64_ADDR64 used with TLS symbol __rw_what_buf
/amd/devco/sebor/dev/stdlib/src/locale_combine.cpp:639: std::locale::locale: bad locale name: ""

Issue Links

• is related to: STDCXX-342 [Solaris] std::locale("/path/to/valid/locale") throws