On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:09:46PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> >printf (_("foo %s%n"), some_string, &n);
> >is ok even with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
>
> How is this considered ok? Is _("abc") placing the translation in
> non-writable memory?
Yes, the *.mo file is mmaped and gettext either returns the passed
pointer if no translation is found, or a pointer into the read-only
mmaping of the *.mo file.
Jakub
