Re: gettext markup of library sources

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:54:34PM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how reliable any of these bad, bad, bad names are in
> this day and age. Perhaps somebody should review it, and confirm it is
> still relevant before libstdc++ departs from standard usage. I believe
> we all agree that that should only be done if absolutely necessary.

_N is still in use under Solaris 8.  Pity.


> However, these __throw_* functions are just wrappers, so that
> -fno-exceptions can be used.  See src/functexcept.cc. That might be a
> better place to put this translation machinery, since we know that all
> exceptions go through this choke point already...
> 
>   void
>   __throw_length_error(const char* __s)
>   { throw length_error(__s); }
> 
> can be
> 
>   void
>   __throw_length_error(const char* __s)
>   { throw length_error(_(__s)); }

That's almost exactly what I tried, with no joy.  I was having difficulty
with textdomain just being ignored, but that could just be me.


Phil

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