On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:04:41 +0100
Christian Biere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> but this means that we must not use format strings with ngettext().

Although in my knowledge, it means human him/herself must confirm that
whether its format is proper instead of compiler's auto checking,
doesn't it? ...um, I don't know actually.

> So the affected format strings have to be re-arranged that the
> ngettext() result is a mere string argument - as discussed before
> this might require context information to the translatable strings.

I think it's the main problem, in a word, hack part you mentioned ahead.

> GCC is clever enough so that it can check this at compile-time since
> it's transparent macro in contrast to a function interface.

> I assume this is no different from gettext() but GCC "trusts" the
> latter to not mess with format strings.

I don't always trust GCC, so I can understand what you want to say in
different aspect though...well...I wish I had have MIPSpro compiler so
that I can acquire certain view point.

-- 
Daichi


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