standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3)

[Alexey Zelkin]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:28:00PM +0400, Андрей Чернов wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:20:11 -0700, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> 
>>  I also would object to using of setlocale() from libc's function internally.
> 
> libc can't _set_ anything using setlocale() but can _get_ things using it.

Actually it can, but should not.  And we are speaking about such case.