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Ansi C: Stay Tuned for This Important Message
Jeffrey Haemer reporting on Posix, in <13501@cs.utexas.edu>:
Stay_Tuned_for_This_Important_Message
If you haven't yet had the pleasure of internationalizing applica-
tions, chances are you will soon. When you do, you'll face messaging:
modifying the application to extract all text strings from external
data files. The sun is setting on
main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}
and we're entering a long night of debugging programs like this:
#include
#include
#include "msg.h" /* decls of catname(), etc. */
#define GRTNG "hello, world\n"
nl_catd catd;
main()
{
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
catd = catopen(catname(argv[0]), 0);
printf(catgets(catd, SETID, MSGID, GRTNG));
catclose(catd);
exit(0);
}
This, um, advance stems from a desire to let the program print
ch`o c'c ^ng
instead of
hello, world
when LANG is set to ``Vietnamese.''
We observe that in order to get past a discriminating ANSI compiler,
(eg. gcc -Wall -ansi -pedantic) "hello world" has already become:
#include
int
main()
{
(void) printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}
[Or do I also need to include stddef.h?]
Mark.
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