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Diffstat (limited to 'solc/main.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | solc/main.cpp | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/solc/main.cpp b/solc/main.cpp index ce787574..11facfa6 100644 --- a/solc/main.cpp +++ b/solc/main.cpp @@ -27,9 +27,22 @@ using namespace std; -void setEnv() +/* +The equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, “C”) is called before any user code is run. +If the user has an invalid environment setting then it is possible for the call +to set locale to fail, so there are only two possible actions, the first is to +throw a runtime exception and cause the program to quit (default behaviour), +or the second is to modify the environment to something sensible (least +surprising behaviour). + +The follow code produces the least surprising behaviour. It will use the user +specified default locale if it is valid, and if not then it will modify the +environment the process is running in to use a sensible default. This also means +that users do not need to install language packs for their OS. +*/ +void setDefaultOrCLocale() { -#if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(MAC_OSX) && !defined(__FreeBSD__) && !defined(__OpenBSD__) +#if __unix__ if (!std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "")) { setenv("LC_ALL", "C", 1); @@ -39,7 +52,7 @@ void setEnv() int main(int argc, char** argv) { - setEnv(); + setDefaultOrCLocale(); dev::solidity::CommandLineInterface cli; if (!cli.parseArguments(argc, argv)) return 1; |