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Re: [patch] better error output from ar when given a directory


On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:00:34AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:27:06AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > @@ -300,6 +303,7 @@ const char *const bfd_errmsgs[] =
> >    N_("Bad value"),
> >    N_("File truncated"),
> >    N_("File too big"),
> > +  N_("Error reading "),
> >    N_("#<Invalid error code>")
> >  };
> >  
> 
> That's practically a contradiction: N_ means to translate the string,
> but you're assuming the translation will have the filename at the end.
> I think you probably want to put something bogus there, like a copy of
> the following error, and use a separate format string...
> 
> > +  if (error_tag == bfd_error_on_input)
> > +    return concat (_(bfd_errmsgs [error_tag]), input_bfd->filename, ": ",
> > +		   bfd_errmsg (input_error), NULL);
> > +
> 
> here.

I'd need something like asprintf because we're returning a string.
Oh...  There is one of them in libiberty.  OK, I'll fix that.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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