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Re: __attribute__ ((deprecated))
- To: pthomas at suse dot de (Philipp Thomas)
- Subject: Re: __attribute__ ((deprecated))
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:42:59 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: green at redhat dot com (Anthony Green), shebs at apple dot com,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> > Are you sure? I guess I don't understand GCC's i18n support. Stan's
> > proposal has part of the message in the user's source code. How would that
> > ever end up in gcc.pot?
>
> Forget it. I wrote that much too late for me and didn't think straight. Of
> course this is user code so it would always be in the language it was
> written in.
No, it is library code. The provider of the library might speak a different
labguage than the user.
So it does make sense to provide a few standard phrases with translations,
and recommend to use one of these to get internationalized warnings.