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Minor Description
The current numpunct.mt test fails on at least one platform because the initialization code and the test code use two different methods for retrieving the numpunct data. The run_test function uses std::localeconv(), and thread_func uses the C++ locale numpunct facet. In most situations this isn't a problem.
Unfortunately, due to incompatibilities between the C and C++ locale details, the thousands seperator is different with the "C" locale. For C++ it is ',' and for C it is the empty string. Here is a quick test to show the problem that the test sees.
#include <clocale>
#include <locale>
int main()
{
if (!std::setlocale (LC_ALL, "C"))
return 1;
const std::lconv* const pconv = std::localeconv ();
// test against the specialization directly
const std::numpunct<char> np(0);
assert (*pconv->decimal_point == np.decimal_point ());
assert (*pconv->thousands_sep == np.thousands_sep ());
return 0;
}
The test should be enhanced to use the C++ locale for both run_test and thread_func.