From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:15:24 GMT
Subject: Re: cb/pedantic-build-for-developers, POSIX-but-not-C99 and -Wno-pedantic-ms-format
Message-ID: <xmqqee9g8u3n.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <b0eba1c6-5468-df31-db6f-701bcd24adff@web.de>

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/).