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Re: libc-2.25.90.pot
On 20/07/2017 08:17, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 July 2017 07:19 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19 July 2017 06:58 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>>> I think for glibc, since we support C99 intmax_t printf format, we can
>>> just use %jd instead:
>>>
>>> * timezone/zic.c (PRIdLINENO): Remove macro.
>>> (verror): Use %jd instead of PRIdLINENO.
>>
>> Fine with me, but I'd like to hear from Joseph/Paul too if they have any
>> context from the tz project that may make this a bad idea.
>
> In the interest of unblocking the translation team, lets wait till
> tomorrow and then commit if there are no objections. The more I look at
> the change the more it looks like future-proofing and not relevant to a
> current problem. If the future-proofing is necessary, we can get it
> back in 2.26.90 in a way that does not break translation strings.
I would not say future-proof, but rather the macro is to allow more
compatibility for different libc implementation (for the case where the
libc is c99 compatible but not support %jd).