Re: Commit: fix unix build

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 13:25:48 EST

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    > The profile that use under Windows NT reports that
    > we leak like the Titanic in
    > setlocale calls. It seems that setlocale allocates
    > the string that returns and
    > it has to be free'd in some situations. I have not
    > found this in the setlocale
    > documentation and I have not investaged this any
    > deeper. We use setlocale
    > continually when doing the dimension conversion at
    > ut_units.cpp.

    From the setlocale documentation:

    BUGS
           The return type ought to be const char *, but
    is char * to avoid warn‐
           ings in C code predating ANSI C.

    If MSFT requires this to be free()'d then they're in
    the wrong. Fortunately, I've written a
    UT_LocaleTransactor class that I'll make all of our
    code use. If we need to do something like free() the
    returned strings for MSFT, we can fix it in one place.

    Best regards,
    Dom

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