A better (more portable) way of printing variable argument lists
Kaveh R. Ghazi
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Thu Feb 26 11:04:00 GMT 1998
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
>
> Actually, if we're going to revamp how we handle error messages I'd
> like to see us move more towards a model where we can print errors
> in multiple languages.
>
> Most modern vendor compilers already do this; GCC never tried because
> RMS opposed numbering warnings/errors (which is how multi-language
> errors work).
Wouldn't we use gettext? I thought that package used the actual
message text as the key and that it didn't number messages.
> I'd actually like to see us reach closure on some of the other
> things like the warning patches and system.h before we open up
> another reorganization project. I don't want to get into a state
> where we've got so many of these things going on that none of them
> ever get finished :-)
> jeff
Good point. Consider error messages tabled.
--Kaveh
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