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Re: [PATCH] Remove warning 'format not a string literal' in libsvn_client

From: Daniel Näslund <daniel_at_longitudo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:57:36 +0100

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:18:29PM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
> Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > [Daniel Näslund]
> >
> >> if (! original_value)
> >> - header_fmt = _("Added: %s%s");
> >> + SVN_ERR(file_printf_from_utf8(file, encoding, "Added: %s%s",
> >> + propchange->name, APR_EOL_STR));
> >>
> >
> > Julian talked about this code already, but just to point out: your
> > change is incorrect, because it removes the _() functionality, i.e.,
> > string localisation. You have to be careful about these things.
> >
> > ...Indeed, we use quite a lot of _() with printf format strings (see
> > all the references to 'c-format' in tools/po/po-update.sh). Why
> > aren't these _all_ warnings with your compiler?
> >
>
> Because his compiler is probably gcc, and gcc "sees" through gettext()
> and friends; in other words, libintl.h declares the necessary function
> attributes that allow gcc to make assumptions about the return values
> based on function arguments.

In my libintl.h gettext is declared like this:

  extern char *gettext (__const char *__msgid)
       __THROW __attribute_format_arg__ (1);

Where __attribute_format_arg__ specifies that the function takes a
format string and modifies it but preservers the rest of the %s parameters. [1]

But I still haven't found out how _("...") is expanded to
gettext("...").

Thanks Branko for the information. This day wasn't wasted. I've learned
something new.

/Daniel

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html

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