c/9390: Segmentation Fault when compiling for athlon with LANG=es_ES@euro or LC_ALL=es_ES@euro

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: bangerth
> >     Another one of these nasty translation problems. The 
> >     translation files are wrong, with some messages using more
> >     or less parameters than the english original. This leads to
> >     the ICE.
> >     
> >     We need to get methods in place to check for this...
> >     
> >     Sorry, there is not much that we can do about it for now.
> 
> Translation bugs are still bugs in GCC, although they need to be forwarded
> to the relevant language team to be fixed.  They should not be closed in
> the GCC bug database until fixed in GCC (i.e., until the new .po file is
> in GCC CVS).  Has such a .po file been committed?  Have you forwarded the
> report to the relevant translation team?

Well, I am happy to reopen this if you insist. However, there is a more 
structural problem, which will not be solved by just finding out the one 
message that caused the ICE here, so I don't think there is much value in 
just fixing this one. The problem is thet we have tons of messages like
  "Don't do %X with %Y using %Z"
and translations like
  "Versuch %X mit %Z zu tun"
Here, the number of %-sequences don't match, which leads to the ICE. I had 
identified this sometime back last November (+- 1 month; see the mailing 
list archives), and a quick scan showed that we literally hundreds of 
these cases.

We need to have a process that prevents this up front. Just fixing 
individual messages is not sufficient.

With respect to this particular case: we already have at least one 
prototypical report about this open. I closed this one as kind-of-a-
duplicate.

W.

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