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author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2000-05-31 18:32:07 +0000 |
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committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2000-05-31 18:32:07 +0000 |
commit | b154d7db345b4b9a9901eee6668b03ca69d6e7b0 (patch) | |
tree | 1d06f1d51223cb7e75137c1d2d95bc56120c0356 /opcodes | |
parent | 2283928841ee89433bc04a8d93e792ba64920683 (diff) | |
download | binutils-redhat-b154d7db345b4b9a9901eee6668b03ca69d6e7b0.tar.gz |
Add comment describoing why dgettext() is used in _() macro.
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-rw-r--r-- | opcodes/opintl.h | 13 |
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diff --git a/opcodes/ChangeLog b/opcodes/ChangeLog index 08b2c16749..a2c890f86a 100644 --- a/opcodes/ChangeLog +++ b/opcodes/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2000-05-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> + + * opintl.h (_(String)): Explain why dgettext is used instead of + gettext. + 2000-05-30 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> * opintl.h (gettext, dgettext, dcgettext, textdomain, diff --git a/opcodes/opintl.h b/opcodes/opintl.h index 55a989a53b..492fc1a6c8 100644 --- a/opcodes/opintl.h +++ b/opcodes/opintl.h @@ -12,6 +12,19 @@ #ifdef ENABLE_NLS # include <libintl.h> +/* Note the use of dgetext() and PACKAGE here, rather than gettext(). + + This is because the code in this directory is used to build a library which + will be linked with code in other directories to form programs. We want to + maintain a seperate translation file for this directory however, rather + than being forced to merge it with that of any program linked to + libopcodes. This is a library, so it cannot depend on the catalog + currently loaded. + + In order to do this, we have to make sure that when we extract messages we + use the OPCODES domain rather than the domain of the program that included + the opcodes library, (eg OBJDUMP). Hence we use dgettext (PACKAGE, String) + and define PACKAGE to be 'opcodes'. (See the code in configure). */ # define _(String) dgettext (PACKAGE, String) # ifdef gettext_noop # define N_(String) gettext_noop (String) |