Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If 'size' is of type size_t, then where I was suggesting this:
>
> unsigned long int s = size;
> printf (_("The size is %lu.\n"), size);
>
> the gettext manual suggests something like this instead:
>
> char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (size_t)];
> sprintf (buf, "%" PRIuSIZE, size);
> printf (_("The size is %s.\n"), buf1);
>
> where we define PRIuSIZE in system.h. But this is even more awkward.
I have an idea, but I don't know whether it's reasonable. How
about a function that does a makes a copy of a format string, in
the process doing a textual search-and-replace of %zu, etc. by
the local system's appropriate size modifier? Then the above
would become something like:
printf (fix_sizes (_("The size is %zu.\n")), size);
We'd want to write an Autoconf test for whether `z' and friends
are supported so that fix_sizes could be stubbed out if it was
unneeded, e.g.
#ifdef HAS_C99_PRINTF
#define fix_sizes(FORMAT) (FORMAT)
#endif
Presumably fix_sizes() would be written something like quote() to
avoid the need to explicitly free a dynamically allocated string.
--
Ben Pfaff
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