On Tuesday 26 May 2009 17:19:50 Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I think it should use the %2$s style specifier in that case.  This
> > should work:
> >
> > printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %2$lu bytes",
> >                   "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
> >         n, total_bytes);
>
> How's that gonna work?  In the n=1 case, printf would have no idea about
> the type/size of the argument it would need to skip over.

gcc -Wall actually warns if you do this.


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