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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Kaveh R. Ghazi			Project Manager / Custom Development
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu		ICon CMT Corp.



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