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

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Were those hundreds reported to the language translation lists?  Every
> such case needs fixing at some point, and only the translators can fix
> them.  There's no point in delaying the fixes for known bugs - which will
> be exactly the same fixes with or without the infrastructure to detect
> those bugs - because more bugs might be detected later. 

I wrote a little script that tried to find these problems. See the thread 
that started at 
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-10/msg01694.html
There's extensive discussion with Zack about the problem and how he thinks 
this should be fixed/tackled.


> If the bugs are
> reported to the maintainers of the translations now (presuming that the
> bugs are still present in the .po files on the TP site, not just the old
> versions in GCC CVS) then we can have a more reliable 3.3 release.

I don't think this was reported to the translation maintainers. I was 
fairly new to gcc processes back then. I would appreciate if you could 
take the necessary steps.


> > 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.
> 
> A report about this exact message, for this language?  If so - and only if
> so - it is appropriate to close this as a duplicate.  If for a different
> message or language, this is a separate GCC bug, which should be open
> until it has been fixed by the maintainers of the translations and the
> fixed .po file committed to GCC.

The original bug (PR 7765) was against the french translation.

I'll reopen 9390.

W.

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