On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:00:10 +0200
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:51:14 -0700
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
The code in question is simply outputting a list of attributes
associated with a particular thread. How should we make the necessary
context available to the translator without putting an undue burden
on GDB maintainers?
I suggested a way to do that. I don't think it's putting an undue
burden on us, but if someone comes with a better idea, I will gladly
vote in favor. Just let's not assume the problem does not exist.
Could we use an alternate macro for such cases? This alternate macro
would take two arguments, one of which is the string to be translated,
the other. The other is simply a comment providing context for the
translators. Perhaps something like this?
#define __(str,context_comment) _(str)
Then, for "suspended" and other such attributes, we could put something
like this in the code:
__("suspended", "thread-id attribute")
The nice thing about this is that the comment string can contain anything;
if a translator finds that not enough information is contained in the string,
they can provides suggestions to us to make it more useful.