Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:54:52PM -0700, Carlo Arenas wrote: > >> 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) > > I think Ævar might have mis-spoke there. It would make sense to get rid > of the feature and _never_ use parens, which is always valid C (and does > not tickle pedantic, but also does not catch any accidental string > concatenation). > > That actually seems quite reasonable to me. That does sound sensible. > Something like this, I guess? Looks good. We could give a warning when the now defunct knob is used, but I don't think there is anything gained by doing so (over just silently ignoring it).
