(void) setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
It will be easiest way now to make national chars available
for all ctype-oriented programs at once by simple:
setenv LANG Your_National_Charset
Default case (without "LANG" environment
variable) will be fully ANSI compatible (got "C" locale).
If "LANG" variable present, extention becomes active.
Effect of this extention is great: in one time all ctype
oriented programs can accept/print national characters
without any touching source/binary code, it is big win, IMHO.
This method is fully compatible with ISO8859-* and russian koi8-r
too (in general -- with all 8-bit character sets). I think
it is very useful.
I got this idea from Xenix locale implementation.
This extention is even never compiled in, unless you set
setenv STARTUP_LOCALE
before rebuilding crt0.c or corresponding variable in /etc/make.conf
<machine/profile.h>. The old version was writing an incomplete
header without the profrate field that is necessary to handle the
current faster profiling clock. The counters that are where the
the profrate should be are usually 0 and gprof converts a profrate
of 0 to hz so the old version gave times too large by a factor of
profhz/hz = 10.24.
This fixes the problems Warner's having with ctors not being called
again with the latest round of ld changes and updates the file-names to what
Paul is using now.
The name change will not affect anything as we are not (yet) using it.
program. The idea was that these are 'alignment' crap, but the image
is 16byte-aligned without these. Location 0 still doesn't have a 0,
but who cares, binaries wil be built with page zero unmapped in the
near future.
Poul-Henning Kamp
Jordan K. Hubbard
Andrey A. Chernov
Bruce Evans
Garrett Wollman
Rodney W. Grimes
Nate Williams
David Greenman
Paul Richards
Charlie Root