Re: Warnings compiling with glib svn trunk

[Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc@xxxxxxxxx>]

El mié, 14-05-2008 a las 11:37 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi escribió:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:25 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > This change in glib:
> > 
> > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib/trunk/glib/gi18n.h?r1=6713&r2=6882
> > 
> > changes the prototype of _() returning now a const char *. This produces
> > a lot of warnings  in some programs. I've just noticed it compiling
> > nautilus from svn trunk which seems to have the Werror flag active by
> > default.
> 
> _() always returned a const gchar*, be it when it was expanding to
> gettext() (which returns a const char*) or when it expanded to the
> string it contained.

According to the gettext man page:

#include <libintl.h>

char * gettext (const char * msgid);

> applications keeping/modifying the string returned by _() around without
> copying it first have always been broken and should be fixed.

yes, because the result is a a statically allocated string. 

> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.

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