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Re: Checking format specifiers

From: martin at v dot loewis dot de (Martin v. Löwis)
To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ishikawa <ishikawa at yk dot rim dot or dot jp>, translation at IRO dot UMontreal dot CA
Date: 24 Jul 2003 07:58:52 +0200
Subject: Re: Checking format specifiers
References: <200307211749.08083.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu><200307221821.26328.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu><m3he5dzx6z.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de><200307231507.40460.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>

Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu> writes:

> OK, now I understand. Then we're just left with a situation where many 
> messages remain untranslated. I'll go through the PRs with translation 
> problems and see what exactly has gone wrong with them.

I believe the *real* problem is that gcc uses all kinds of "new"
format specifiers, for the error and warning functions
(e.g. %D). msgfmt doesn't know what to do about these; I'm unsure how
it reacts when it sees them.

Regards,
Martin

References:
- Checking format specifiers (Was: Re: Support for %d$c format specifier in diagnostics.c)
  - From: Wolfgang Bangerth
- Re: Checking format specifiers
  - From: Wolfgang Bangerth
- Re: Checking format specifiers
  - From: Martin v. Löwis
- Re: Checking format specifiers
  - From: Wolfgang Bangerth

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