PDCLIB-2 PDCLIB-9: As an extension, add the POSIX thread-local locale API

[pdclib.old] / includes / locale.h

diff --git a/includes/locale.h b/includes/locale.h
index 6d9d4829dd88cad2c61d463e7aec3dcc9e565057..21221e33e64df11f71a6eff1d767814d8fcc53d8 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/locale.h
+++ b/includes/locale.h
@@ -90,12 +90,36 @@ extern struct lconv _PDCLIB_lconv;
    Otherwise, returns a pointer to a string associated with the specified
    category for the new locale.
 */
-char * setlocale( int category, const char * locale );
+char * setlocale( int category, const char * locale ) _PDCLIB_nothrow;
 
 /* Returns a struct lconv initialized to the values appropriate for the current
    locale setting.
 */
-struct lconv * localeconv( void );
+struct lconv * localeconv( void ) _PDCLIB_nothrow;
+
+#if _PDCLIB_POSIX_MIN(2008)
+typedef _PDCLIB_locale_t locale_t;
+
+/* Set the thread locale to newlocale
+ *
+ * If newlocale is (locale_t)0, then doesn't change the locale and just returns
+ * the existing locale.
+ *
+ * If newlocale is LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE, resets the thread's locale to use the 
+ * global locale.
+ *
+ * Returns the previous thread locale. If the thread had no previous locale, 
+ * returns the global locale.
+ */
+locale_t uselocale(locale_t newlocale);
+
+/* Returns a copy of loc */
+locale_t duplocale(locale_t loc);
+
+/* Frees the passed locale object */
+void freelocale(locale_t loc);
+
+#endif
 
 _PDCLIB_END_EXTERN_C
 #endif