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Re: Checking format specifiers
> > If it does, then it is not very successful: it doesn't give an error for
> > any of the translations we have.
>
> IIRC msgfmt --check-format only checks formats with the "#, c-format"
That's right...
> annotation, which we deliberately do not put on any of the
> translations, because --check-format pukes on the extended format
> specifiers used by the diagnostic printers.
...but that's wrong:
gcc/po> grep "#, c-format" *po | wc -l
9849
I checked that, and it seems as if all (or all that I looked at) messages have
this attribute.
W.
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