Am 22.09.21 um 18:15 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > >> The lack of warnings about the use of that extension in po/ means >> translated formats are not checked by the compiler at all, right? >> According to the gettext documentation [2] msgfmt takes care of that >> when building the translation files, though. > > It is not even seen by the compiler at compilation time, right? _() > at runtime is merely a function call to map its parameter string to > another string using what is in .mo (compiled from po/). Right, and it's up to the program that builds these .mo files (msgfmt) to only accept valid mappings between printf format strings. René
