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| author | Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> | 2002-02-17 14:55:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Philipp Thomas <pthomas@gcc.gnu.org> | 2002-02-17 14:55:10 +0000 |
| commit | 404ae494a6ba548ea63588cd3ceac4a54be791d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 689f3b8eb04879216029d9ab9b249d8ad5998479 | |
| parent | a52453cc4295af6f62d1e59faac80056c426a400 (diff) | |
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Explain why empty strings should not be marked for translation.
From-SVN: r49821
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/doc/tm.texi | 14 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index cd30880..4530ebf 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2002-02-17 Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> + * doc/tm.texi: Explain why empty strings should not be + marked for translation. + +2002-02-17 Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> + * final.c (output_operand_lossage): Changed to accept printf style arguments. Change calls where necessary. * output.h (output_operand_lossage): Change declaration diff --git a/gcc/doc/tm.texi b/gcc/doc/tm.texi index 663393e..891559a 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/tm.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/tm.texi @@ -687,7 +687,11 @@ string is present but empty, then no help information will be displayed for that option, but it will not count as an undocumented option. The actual option name is made by appending @samp{-m} to the specified name. Non-empty description strings should be marked with @code{N_(@dots{})} for -@command{xgettext}. In addition to the description for @option{--help}, +@command{xgettext}. Please do not mark empty strings because the empty +string is reserved by GNU gettext. @code{gettext("")} returns the header entry +of the message catalog with meta information, not the empty string. + +In addition to the description for @option{--help}, more detailed documentation for each option should be added to @file{invoke.texi}. @@ -713,8 +717,12 @@ options that have values. Its definition is an initializer with a subgrouping for each command option. Each subgrouping contains a string constant, that defines the fixed part -of the option name, the address of a variable, and a description string -(which should again be marked with @code{N_(@dots{})}). +of the option name, the address of a variable, and a description string. +Non-empty description strings should be marked with @code{N_(@dots{})} for +@command{xgettext}. Please do not mark empty strings because the empty +string is reserved by GNU gettext. @code{gettext("")} returns the header entry +of the message catalog with meta information, not the empty string. + The variable, type @code{char *}, is set to the variable part of the given option if the fixed part matches. The actual option name is made by appending @samp{-m} to the specified name. Again, each option should |