Re: c-format bug (or feature?) in gettext 0.11

[Cristian Othon Martinez Vera]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Seems like a gcc bug to me.
> 
> The following paragraph in the manual says how to fix it:
> 
> Special Comments preceding Keywords
> ===================================
> 
> [...]
> 
>    `xgettext' of course could make a wrong decision the other way
> round, i.e. a string marked as a format string actually is not a format
> string.  In this case the `msgfmt' might give too many warnings and
> would prevent translating the `.po' file.  The method to prevent this
> wrong decision is similar to the one used above, only the comment to
> use must contain the string `xgettext:no-c-format'.

 It's a gcc bug, indeed. I've submitted a bug report to the gcc team. I 
hope it will be fixed in the next snapshot.

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