markdown/gh_discussions/Bug/3314.md

# [WARNING STA-0139] ... 63.3687 is not a float.

Tool: OpenSTA

Subcategory: Locale issue

## Conversation

### oharboe
I get a lot of these warnings when I run `make gui_final`

This is with the latest ORFS.

What are they?

```
$ make DESIGN_CONFIG=designs/asap7/mock-array-big/Element/config.mk place
```


```
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 397, 63.3687 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 397, 79.0805 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 397, 106.935 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 397, 156.622 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 397, 248.596 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 397, 432.982 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 0.36 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 0.72 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 1.44 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 2.88 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 5.76 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 11.52 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 406, 23.04 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 415, 12.8576 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 415, 15.7364 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 415, 21.3969 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow/platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_TT_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 415, 32.5931 is not a float.
```

### vijayank88
@oharboe 
I ran with latest commit and not able to get similar logs.

### maliberty
The report says 'make place' and 'make gui_final' which are not a compatible pair.   I can't reproduce this either even running all the way through.

### oharboe
```
rm -rf results/
make DESIGN_CONFIG=designs/asap7/mock-array-big/Element/config.mk place
make DESIGN_CONFIG=designs/asap7/mock-array-big/Element/config.mk gui_place
```

```
$ make DESIGN_CONFIG=designs/asap7/mock-array-big/Element/config.mk gui_place
[INFO][FLOW] Using platform directory ./platforms/asap7
[INFO-FLOW] ASU ASAP7 - version 2
Default PVT selection: BC
ODB_FILE=./results/asap7/mock-array-big_Element/base/3_place.odb /home/oyvind/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/tools/install/OpenROAD/bin/openroad -gui  ./scripts/gui.tcl
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
This plugin does not support propagateSizeHints()
OpenROAD v2.0-8114-gaa1f8060d 
This program is licensed under the BSD-3 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
Components of this program may be licensed under more restrictive licenses which must be honored.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 0.72 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 1.44 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 2.88 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 5.76 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 11.52 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 23.04 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 82, 46.08 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 96, 0.72 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 96, 1.44 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 96, 2.88 is not a float.
[WARNING STA-0139] ./platforms/asap7/lib/asap7sc7p5t_AO_RVT_FF_nldm_211120.lib.gz line 96, 5.76 is not a float.
```


### oharboe
@maliberty Aha! This is a locale issue. In their wisdom a hundred years ago, Norwegians decided to use "," to separate integers from fractions in floating point... So "12.34" is not a valid float in Norwegian locale, rather "12,34" is.

The evidence that this is the problem is that setting `LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"` fixes the problem.

In this case, the locale is decided by the format that is being parsed, it is not a human readable/writeable number.

Let's see if this works: https://github.com/Pinata-Consulting/OpenSTA/tree/lock-down-strtof-locale

Yep :-)

This also explains why we don't see this when we run from docker, only local install.

### maliberty
Brazil has the same issue.  https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/blob/6920ac530b6959f742e75b7f55062b1642730b14/src/Main.cc#L217  attempts to solve this.  Do none of the locales exist on your systems?

### maliberty
Would you try your strtof check along with getlocale after these various points to try to see what's going on.  I think this works in Brazil so I'm trying to understand what's different here.  @luis201420 any insights?


### maliberty
Perhaps it relates to LC_NUMERIC or another.  Can you try unsetting all LC_* but LC_ALL in your environment to see if that matters?

### oharboe
@maliberty @luis201420 With this change, I no longer get the warnings.

This is just a quick hack, I think it would be better if someone who knows what is going on and are aware of other edgecases articulates the pull request :-)

```
diff --git a/src/gui/src/gui.cpp b/src/gui/src/gui.cpp
index 355aa6842..7d79d99a3 100644
--- a/src/gui/src/gui.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/src/gui.cpp
@@ -1141,6 +1141,16 @@ int startGui(int& argc,
   }
   main_window->show();
 
+  // This avoids problems with locale setting dependent
+  // C functions like strtod (e.g. 0.5 vs 0,5).
+  std::array locales = {"en_US.UTF-8", "C.UTF-8", "C"};
+  for (auto locale : locales) {
+    if (std::setlocale(LC_ALL, locale) != nullptr) {
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
+
   gui->setLogger(open_road->getLogger());
 
   main_window->setDatabase(open_road->getDb());
```


### maliberty
@luis201420 will you look at this since you can reproduce it

### oharboe
I guess this has been identified as a bug in OpenROAD, given that there are frameworks that set the locale after OpenROAD has set the locale.