Re: trouble with NGPT + Linux 2.5.40 + glibc 2.2.93

Hello!

Some hints to clarify my findings:

In old (up to 2.2.5) GLIBC versions, there is also the code
        decimal = _NL_CURRENT (LC_NUMERIC, DECIMAL_POINT);
but with the understandable definition

#define _NL_CURRENT(category, item) \
  (_nl_current_##category->values[_NL_ITEM_INDEX (item)].string)

and _nl_current_LC_NUMERIC is just a simple variable. So in old GLIBC
libraries, locales were not thread specific.

In the new GLIBC (2.2.93 of RH 8.0 and also the official 2.3) they use the
macro _NL_CURRENT_LOCALE which calls the macro __libc_tsd_get, which does the
__libc_internal_tsd_get check and then the libc_internal_tsd_get() call.

Bye, Uwe

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