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Re: how to format an error?
> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 11:09:15 -0500
>> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>>
>> Wouldn't the gettext stuff let the german translator do this?
>
>
> gettext? what gettext? there _is_ no gettext in GDB ;-)
> Anyway, the specific case I cited was with system error messages
> returned by strerror. These are not subject to translations.
My manual says:
The strerror() function returns a pointer to the language-dependent error
message string affiliated with an error number.
with a SEE ALSO to setlocale(). I guess something like:
error ("Cannot perform exponentiation: %s", strerror (errno));
is ok, but:
error ("%s on target_read", safe_strerror (err));
is really bad.
Andrew
(Hmm, I like the swapping between strerror and save_strerror ...)