non-ASCII letters in identifiers.
Not all of GCC's diagnostic messages have been internationalized. Programs
-like `enquire' and `genattr' (in fact all gen* programs) are not
-internationalized, as their users are GCC maintainers who typically need
-to be able to read English anyway; internationalizing them would thus
-entail needless work for the human translators. Messages used for
-debugging, such as used in dumped tables, should also not be translated.
+like `genattr' (in fact all gen* programs) are not internationalized, as
+their users are GCC maintainers who typically need to be able to read
+English anyway; internationalizing them would thus entail needless work for
+the human translators. Messages used for debugging, such as used in dumped
+tables, should also not be translated.
The GCC library should not contain any messages that need
internationalization, because it operates below the internationalization
library.
-Currently, the only language translation supplied is en_UK (British
-English).
-
Unlike some other GNU programs, the GCC sources contain few instances
of explicit translation calls like _("string"). Instead, the
diagnostic printing routines automatically translate their arguments.
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.
After having built and installed these gettext tools, you have to
configure GCC with --enable-maintainer-mode to get the master catalog
rebuilt.
+
+\f
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+
+Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+notice and this notice are preserved.
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