From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: cb/pedantic-build-for-developers, POSIX-but-not-C99 and -Wno-pedantic-ms-format
Message-ID: <03283614-c589-5e19-4d35-f0a017e69895@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqee9g8u3n.fsf@gitster.g>

Am 22.09.21 um 18:15 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>
>> The lack of warnings about the use of that extension in po/ means
>> translated formats are not checked by the compiler at all, right?
>> According to the gettext documentation [2] msgfmt takes care of that
>> when building the translation files, though.
>
> It is not even seen by the compiler at compilation time, right?  _()
> at runtime is merely a function call to map its parameter string to
> another string using what is in .mo (compiled from po/).

Right, and it's up to the program that builds these .mo files (msgfmt)
to only accept valid mappings between printf format strings.

René