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Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/ABOUT-GCC-NLS')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ABOUT-GCC-NLS b/gcc/ABOUT-GCC-NLS index b0919d1b2ac..8107d583e07 100644 --- a/gcc/ABOUT-GCC-NLS +++ b/gcc/ABOUT-GCC-NLS @@ -25,15 +25,22 @@ responsibility to translate the message before the user sees it. By convention, any function parameter in the GCC sources whose name ends in `msgid' is expected to be a message requiring translation. -For example, the `error' function's first parameter is named `msgid'. +If the parameter name ends with `gmsgid', it is assumed to be a GCC +diagnostics format string requiring translation, if it ends with +`cmsgid', it is assumed to be a format string for `printf' family +of functions, requiring a translation. +For example, the `error' function's first parameter is named `gmsgid'. GCC's exgettext script uses this convention to determine which function parameter strings need to be translated. The exgettext script also assumes that any occurrence of `%eMSGID}' on a source line, where MSGID does not contain `%' or `}', corresponds to a message MSGID that requires translation; this is needed to identify diagnostics in GCC spec strings. +The `G_(GMSGID)' macro defined in intl.h can be used to mark GCC diagnostics +format strings as requiring translation, but other than that it is a +no-op at runtime. -If you modify source files, you'll need at least version 0.10.37 of the +If you modify source files, you'll need at least version 0.14.15 of the GNU gettext package to propagate the modifications to the translation tables. |