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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2000-05-31 18:32:07 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2000-05-31 18:32:07 +0000
commit73a5261929410f2a772d63e5b034af5aa9435531 (patch)
tree1bf301a4e12152933a088d5586b74b2c265f362a /bfd/sysdep.h
parent07eee312e70bed3e2306447985d318d1adb9d8a3 (diff)
downloadgdb-73a5261929410f2a772d63e5b034af5aa9435531.tar.gz
Add comment describoing why dgettext() is used in _() macro.
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diff --git a/bfd/sysdep.h b/bfd/sysdep.h
index 77b5e50a9c3..bf3eac03ccb 100644
--- a/bfd/sysdep.h
+++ b/bfd/sysdep.h
@@ -126,6 +126,18 @@ extern char *getenv ();
#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 libbfd.
+ 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 bfd library, (eg OBJDUMP). Hence we use dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
+ and define PACKAGE to be 'bfd'. (See the code in configure). */
#define _(String) dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
#ifdef gettext_noop
#define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)