Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] LC_MESSAGE

[Mumit K. <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Danny Smith wrote:

> 
> --- Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...> wrote: > Should this be added
> to the locale.h file?  It would be defined as
> > constant 6.
> > 
> > Earnie.
> > 
> No.
> 
> LC_MESSAGE is required by POSIX but not ANSI C.  Same for LC_NCAT 
> (defined as 7).   According to MSDN, LC_MAX is defined as LC_TIME (5),
> so I would guess that setlocale would not understand it.

Danny is very correct. You can define the macro, but it's useless in
conjunction with MSVC and shouldn't be added. Don't remember who I had
this conversation with a year or so ago, and we went through this but
perhaps not via the mailing list.

Regards,
Mumit