Add comment describoing why dgettext() is used in _() macro.
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2000-05-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
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* opintl.h (_(String)): Explain why dgettext is used instead
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of gettext.
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2000-05-31 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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* elf.c (_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables): Correct reading of version
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#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
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#include <libintl.h>
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/* Note the use of dgetext() and PACKAGE here, rather than gettext().
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This is because the code in this directory is used to build a library which
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will be linked with code in other directories to form programs. We want to
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maintain a seperate translation file for this directory however, rather
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than being forced to merge it with that of any program linked to libbfd.
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This is a library, so it cannot depend on the catalog currently loaded.
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In order to do this, we have to make sure that when we extract messages we
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use the OPCODES domain rather than the domain of the program that included
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the bfd library, (eg OBJDUMP). Hence we use dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
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and define PACKAGE to be 'bfd'. (See the code in configure). */
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#define _(String) dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
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#ifdef gettext_noop
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#define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)
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2000-05-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
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* opintl.h (_(String)): Explain why dgettext is used instead of
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gettext.
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2000-05-30 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
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* opintl.h (gettext, dgettext, dcgettext, textdomain,
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#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
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# include <libintl.h>
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/* Note the use of dgetext() and PACKAGE here, rather than gettext().
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This is because the code in this directory is used to build a library which
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will be linked with code in other directories to form programs. We want to
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maintain a seperate translation file for this directory however, rather
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than being forced to merge it with that of any program linked to
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libopcodes. This is a library, so it cannot depend on the catalog
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currently loaded.
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In order to do this, we have to make sure that when we extract messages we
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use the OPCODES domain rather than the domain of the program that included
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the opcodes library, (eg OBJDUMP). Hence we use dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
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and define PACKAGE to be 'opcodes'. (See the code in configure). */
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# define _(String) dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
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# ifdef gettext_noop
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# define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)
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