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From:
Slaven Rezic
Date:
March 31, 2014 06:33
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.20.0 Blockers, 2014-03-24
Message ID:
87fvlyvpzm.fsf@cvrsnica.herceg.de
Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de> writes:

> Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> writes:
>
>> 6.  Gconvert() obeys LC_NUMERIC without "use locale"
>>     https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121317
>>
>>     Karl asserts that the change is correct, although a new macro may be
>>     warranted.  I think I agree.  Dissenters should dissent soon.  It would
>>     probably be nice to have that wrapper available soon, too.
>
> The LC_NUMERIC change does not only affesct Gconvert, but any XS
> functionality using functions like strtod or sprintf with floating point
> conversion specifiers. Without even doing systematic CPAN smoking I
> found quite a number of CPAN modules which are broken because of this.
> The already mentioned list in RT #121317:
[snipped list]

Just for completeness, another one:

MARKOV/Log-Report-1.02.tar.gz

Regards,
    Slaven

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