bug#12392: emacs-gtk misinterprets floating-point numbers under certain locales on openSUSE 12.2

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

Paul Eggert writes:
> This particular problem looks like it's probably an OpenSUSE bug, but
> in general one cannot combine LC_NUMERIC=C with random encodings in
> LC_CTYPE.  It's safer if Emacs uses the C locale when parsing floating
> point numbers.  Here's a proposed patch to do that.  Can you apply
> this against the Emacs trunk and give it a try?

I'd love to, but this patch applied against current trunk from Git
segfaults:

Dumping under the name emacs
45088 pure bytes used
cd ../lisp; make -w compile-first EMACS=/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/emacs/build-trunk/lisp'
Compiling /home/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.el
Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault
Backtrace:
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x8179d62]
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x81556d5]
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x8155787]
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x8179bc2]
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x81551d7]
linux-gate.so.1(__kernel_sigreturn+0x0)[0xb77c2400]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x36f9e)[0xb6146f9e]
/lib/libc.so.6(__strtod_l+0x27)[0xb6148f87]
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x8288a2e]
/home/emacs/build-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x821b070]
...
make[2]: *** [/home/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.elc] Segmentation fault


Ideas?


Regards,
Achim.
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