Bug#227339: xgettext does sometimes not print comments found into source files (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this from the Debian bug system:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Denis Barbier <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:28:34 +0200
Subject: Bug#227339: xgettext does sometimes not print comments found into
    source files

Package: gettext
Version: 0.13.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi, here is a test case:
################### test.c #########################
/* Test 1 */
char *s1 = gettext("foo"
                   "bar");
/* Test 2 */
char *s2 = gettext("baz" "quux");
char *s1 = gettext("blah"
/* Test 3 */
                   "blah");
############### End of test.c ######################

  $ xgettext -c --omit-header -o - test.c
  #: test.c:2
  msgid "foobar"
  msgstr ""

  #. Test 2
  #: test.c:5
  msgid "bazquux"
  msgstr ""

  #. Test 3
  #: test.c:6
  msgid "blahblah"
  msgstr ""
  $

So the first comment is not displayed, but xgettext documentation contains:
`-c [TAG]'
`--add-comments[=TAG]'
     Place comment block with TAG (or those preceding keyword lines) in
     output file.

IMO documentation makes sense, comment 1 should be displayed, but not 3.

Denis