[PATCH v2] locale: don't crash if locale-archive contains all zeros

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Dec 3 16:44:00 GMT 2013


On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> Isn't it possible to break the format between releases, iow people are
> not supposed to rebuild the locales when installing a new libc?

We have in fact already broken it for 2.19, when char is signed, as 
described in the NEWS file, in order to make locale files not depend on 
any system property other than endianness.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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