Re: Does mwcc work on Tiger?

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From: Stefan Haller
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:07

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Stefan Haller <stk@snafu.de> wrote:

> Anybody using the comand line compilers on 10.4?
> 
> When saving the following simple program as /tmp/x.cpp:
> 
>   int main()
>   {
>     double x = 0.5;
>     return 0;
>   }
> 
> , I get the error message
> 
>    Error : invalid floating-point constant
> /tmp/x.cpp line 3         double x = 0.5; 

I figured it out: it's a locale thing.  I have LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1 in
my environment; if I unset LANG, it compiles fine.  Seems like a pretty
bad bug to me; parsing of C code should not be locale-dependent.

-- 
Stefan Haller
Berlin, Germany
http://home.snafu.de/stk/

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