libc: locale: flesh out an incomplete comment

Extrapolate from the context what the intention for the rest of the
comment probably was -- that the C/POSIX (and now C.UTF-8) locales may
avoid an allocation and reuse a global table.

Reviewed by:	bapt
Sponsored by:	Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41087

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Kyle Evans

2023-07-20 23:27:24 -05:00

parent 95f7b36e8f

commit b744861818

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				@@ -163,7 +163,10 @@ xlocale_release(void *val)

				/**

				 * Load functions.  Each takes the name of a locale and a pointer to the data

				 * to be initialised as arguments.  Two special values are allowed for the 

				 * to be initialised as arguments.  Three special values are allowed for the

				 * name of the locale: C, POSIX, and C.UTF-8.  When these are used, we may

				 * use some statically defined tables rather than allocating memory for the

				 * locales' use.

				 */

				extern void* __collate_load(const char*, locale_t);

				extern void* __ctype_load(const char*, locale_t);