Re: A couple of gripes about the gettext plurals patch

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 21:05:29 Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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))

> I can't reproduce that. Do you have a concrete example? Different compiler
> versions, perhaps?

Hmm, I was experimenting with Fedora 10's gcc (4.3.2) ... what are you
testing?

I don't have the test case anymore but will see if I can reconstruct it.

regards, tom lane