On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Marek Polacek wrote:
> > >>+ if (fieldlist == NULL_TREE)
> > >>+ {
> > >>+ warning_at (record_loc, OPT_Wc___compat,
> > >>+ "empty %s has size 0 in C, 1 in C++",
> > >>+ (struct_parse_info->code == RECORD_TYPE) ? "struct" :
> > >>"union");
> > >>+ }
> > >>+
> > >
> > >I think this won't work well wrt translations, so you need to have
> > >an if here. See the pedwarns at the beginning of finish_struct.
> >
> > Do keywords like struct/union really require translation?
>
> C keywords don't require translation, but you always need to have
> complete sentences in diagnostics so I better pointed it out. Joseph
> would know better than me though.
The situation where the above code would cause problems for translation is
a language where "struct" and "union" have different grammatical gender
and the translation of some other bit of the sentence ("empty" or "has")
needs to agree with that gender.
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Joseph S. Myers
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