On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > #define SPEC_MESSAGE(msg) msg
> >
> > "... %e" SPEC_MESSAGE ("Message") "} ..."
> >
> > and then only handling SPEC_MESSAGE specially in exgettext, rather than %e?
>
> We have over 90 of these, plus it would make the specs even harder to read.
> Will defer this to Joseph anyway.
The general design in GCC is to keep down the number of places where
explicit markup for translation is needed. Thus the "msgid" convention
for parameter naming to avoid lots of explicit _() (see ABOUT-GCC-NLS,
though it may be out of date), and thus the detection of %e / %n. So I
think one of the local fixes to avoid this particular case being
misdetected as a spec string should be preferred.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com
