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Message-ID: <20260509040545.GB1827@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2026 00:05:47 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl multi-level table format for binary locale images

On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 11:22:28PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> The concepts here have been presented before; what follows is an
> informal spec of the actual mappable image format that has emerged
> from earlier design proposals and discussion and from implementation
> of draft tooling.
> 
> The multi-level tables used here are in some sense a data-driven
> generalization of the multi-level tables used elsewhere in musl for
> character data, with headers at each level defining the range covered
> and bits examined at the level covered.
> 
> Some of the details here are not yet matched by the draft tooling, and
> all may still be subject to further change until integration and
> release.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Top-level keys:
> 
> [These do not match the draft tooling; I will be updating it to match,
> along with adding binary output capability.]

These should be fixed, along with a number of other changes since the
first parselocale draft, in:

https://codeberg.org/dalias/musl-locale-tools-draft

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