Re: A couple of gripes about the gettext plurals patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I tried throwing various kinds of subtle garbage into the errmsg/ngettext
> > line, but it was all discovered by gcc -Wall.
>
> I experimented with this and found that indeed both format strings are
> checked ... if you have a reasonably recent libintl.h AND you have
> specified --enable-nls. Otherwise it all goes to heck, apparently
> because the compiler doesn't try to look through our substitute
> definition
>
> #define ngettext(s,p,n) ((n) == 1 ? (s) : (p))
>
> So I'm still of the opinion that we need some work here. I think
> that instead of this #define we need an actual function that we can
> hang a couple of __attribute_format_arg__ markers on. Otherwise
> things are going to slip by us. (Not sure about you, but I don't
> build with --enable-nls by default.)

TODO item?

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