On 6/24/2011 4:14 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
No, this is a problem of gettext.
It's a problem with FPC's resourcestring implementation, rather than something specific to gettext. I could use SetResourceStrings directly (objpas.pp) and it will have the same issue.
For this to work you really need resource types that work based on replacing memory areas, or use _()
What do you mean by replacing memory areas? Runtime patching? Does something exist that supports that? On Windows we're using resource DLLs directly, without going through gettext, so I really don't want to switch to _(). I don't mind low-level hacking though. ;)
It looks like Delphi writes a table of these kinds of resource string uses and fixes them up during program initialization. If FreePascal had a similar table it could do the same thing as part of SetResourceStrings.
Assuming Krzysztof is correct that the compiler flattens the references, I'm guessing replacing the FPC_RESOURCESTRINGTABLES section won't help either. If it would, I'd be happy to look into that approach too.
If fixing this is correctly is a reasonable possibility, I'm happy to look into it myself, but I would like to hear how attainable it's likely to be first, since I've never worked on a compiler before.
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