Re: [ gnuplot-Bugs-1217701 ] Locale settings not initialized properly

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> It would have to be a very fine-grained switch, bracketing each
> scanf/printf call.  For instance a plot command like
> 	plot 'foo' using 1:2:(sprintf(format,column(3))) with labels
> will be mixing scanf and sprintf during the parsing of every data line.
> 
> Could be done, but I can already here the screams about the performance
> hit :-)

Well, since we wouldn't be forcing anyone to use any locale setting at 
all, and the default should be "all locales are 'C', so no setlocale() 
calls needed", I consider that a negligible risk.