Re: NSLocale

[David Chisnall]

Hi Stef,

On 2 Jul 2010, at 16:23, Stef Bidi wrote:

> There's also some stuff that might be better placed in the NSNumber class, 
> but, from what I can see, will require a complete overhaul of that class to 
> make it match 10.4 behavior


Can you clarify this a bit?  The class got a complete overhaul a couple of 
months ago when I did a complete rewrite.  I can confirm that it does the same 
thing for -descriptionWithLocale: that OS X 10.6 does, which is NOT what the 
documentation says.  The Cocoa version, like the new GNUstep version, does not 
differentiate between objects based on how they were created.  

If you create an NSNumber using numberWithChar, for example, it stores it as an 
int (same with a short - malloc() on OS X, like most modern platforms, provides 
word-aligned allocations, so there is no space saving possible).  

When you send descriptionWithLocale: to the object, it sends an 
-initWithString: message to an NSString, with %d as the format string (GNUstep 
uses %i, which is what the Apple docs say Apple's implementation uses.  Ho hum 
- this is a small fix if anyone can be bothered to make it).

David

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