From: deb@freebsdfoundation.org   
      
   Dear FreeBSD Community,   
      
   The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that David Chisnall has   
   been awarded a grant to implement xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++.   
      
   The C standard library (libc) is one of the most important parts of a   
   UNIX system as most programs interact with the kernel through interfaces   
   written in C.  Porting code between platforms with similar libc   
   implementations is trivial and if something is supported by libc,   
   higher-level languages can use it without being reimplemented.   
      
   Over time, the C language has slowly evolved to modern multicore   
   systems, but there are still some places that are problematic. One of   
   these is localization as  C began originally had no localization   
   support. FreeBSD libc and Darwin libc (used by Mac OS X) are similar,   
   making it much easier to port code from OS X to FreeBSD than from OS X   
   to Linux. The libc used by OS X supports a set of extended locale   
   functions (xlocale) that allow locale to be set on a per-thread basis.   
      
   Additionally, libc++, from the LLVM project, was originally developed on   
   Darwin, so it uses xlocale for most of the C++ locale support.  The lack   
   of this support is the primary obstacle to porting it to FreeBSD.   
      
   Once xlocale is supported in FreeBSD libc, we can port libc++ to   
   FreeBSD, giving us an MIT-licensed C++11 standard library   
   implementation.  This, in conjunction with Clang and libcxxrt, means   
   that the entire C++ stack in FreeBSD will be free of any GNU code.  This   
   leaves the linker as the only significant obstacle to a GPL-free FreeBSD 10.   
      
   The project will conclude the end of September 2011.   
      
   The FreeBSD Foundation   
      
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