locales compiled on big endian architectures not shareable

Joel Klecker jk@espy.org
Thu Jan 6 00:10:00 GMT 2000


It seems that locales compiled on big endian architectures do not work on
little endian architectures, however locales compiled on a little endian
architecture work on both big and little endian.

In the case at hand, locales made on sparc-linux do not work on i386-linux,
the symptom is that setlocale() fails. I've also seen the same thing happen
when locales are compiled on a powerpc-linux system.
-- 
Joel Klecker (aka Espy)       <URL: mailto:espy@debian.org >
Debian Package Maintainer for the GNU C Library.


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