Re: Need somebody to explain

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 09:44:06AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this snippet was found in dbootstrap.h
> > 
> > #ifndef _TESTING_
> >         #define _(String) String
> > #else
> >         #include <libintl.h>
> >         #define _(String) gettext(String)
> > #endif
> > 
> > Can somebody please explain its deeper sense to me?
> > 
> > This means that we only use gettext/pointerize if we are using
> > the _test targets.  Why?  Why don't we use the same when creating
> > the final floppies?
> 
> Using pointerize, we substitute every _(String) to translation[NNN] before
> calling gcc, so that macros are useless.

IC.  May I remove them to avoid confusion?

Regards,

	Joey

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