RFC: Remove %A, %B and %L from error messages

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Sat Feb 17 03:19:00 GMT 2018


On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 02:38:30AM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
> > For %L, I think it would be better to cast all bfd_vma to long long
> > and print with "ll".  (It's better to give translators the option to
> 
> Note %ll may not be supported on some Windows hosts (needing %I64 instead 
> - there's gettext support for using inttypes.h macros in translated 
> strings so using e.g. uint64_t and PRIx64 should work better than BFD 
> having its own system for host-specific format strings for long long).

Oh, right, I didn't consider the windows weirdness, but as you say
that problem has been solved.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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