From 25603d810ff9b19e41ebc4815d996afc385dc614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Davis Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 14:21:02 -0400 Subject: spelling fixes and an explanatory comment --- libs/pbd/locale_guard.cc | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'libs') diff --git a/libs/pbd/locale_guard.cc b/libs/pbd/locale_guard.cc index c0d351febf..a448cbd24b 100644 --- a/libs/pbd/locale_guard.cc +++ b/libs/pbd/locale_guard.cc @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ using namespace PBD; -/* The initial C++ locate is "C" regardless of the user's preferred locale. +/* The initial C++ locale is "C" regardless of the user's preferred locale. * and affects std::sprintf() et al from * - * the C locale from stlocale() matches the user's preferred locale + * the C locale from setlocale() matches the user's preferred locale * and effects ::sprintf() et al from * * Setting the C++ locale will change the C locale, but not the other way 'round. @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ LocaleGuard::init () { char* actual = setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, NULL); if (strcmp ("C", actual)) { + /* purpose of LocaleGuard is to make sure we're using "C" for + the numeric locale during its lifetime, so make it so. + */ old_c = strdup (actual); /* this changes both C++ and C locale */ std::locale::global (std::locale (std::locale::classic(), "C", std::locale::numeric)); -- cgit v1.2.3