On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:57 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On the other hand maybe we should just remove
> USE_PARENS_AROUND_GETTEXT_N entirely, i.e. always use the parens.
that would break pedantic in all versions of gcc since it is a GNU
extension and is not valid in any C standard.
(unlike the ones we are using with weather balloons and that are valid C99)
the C standard says arrays can be initialized by a string literal
(obviously with quotes) and allows only optional {} which would avoid
the accidental concatenation that triggered this, but can't be used as
an alternative.
> It doesn't seem worth the effort to forever maintain this special case
> and use CI resources etc. to catch what was effectively a one-off typo.
under that argument, removing this safeguard might be also possible.
Carlo
