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[PATCH] Fix Score bugs.

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Jan 19 11:02:00 GMT 2007 
Hi Mei,

> Would you please tell me more information about _() and translation?

_() should be used when you have some text that is going to be displayed 
to the user and you want to allow for the possibility of translating it 
into the user's desired language.  Have a look at the gettext project 
website (which provides the _() function) and which has extensive online 
documentation available:

   http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

The important point for this particular thread I think is that there is 
no need to translate assembler syntax.  Assembler syntax is a language 
in its own right and it does not make sense to attempt to translate this 
artificial, constructed language into a spoken, human language.  Hence 
pieces of code like this:

   sprintf (append_str, _("mlfh! %s"), backupstr);

do not really make sense, since there will never be a translation of the 
"mlfh" opcode into some other language.

Anyway, please take a look at the attached patch which I believe will 
address all of the _() issues currently in the tc-score.c file.  If you 
are happy with it, feel free to apply it, or ping me and I will apply it 
myself.

Cheers
   Nick

gas/ChangeLog
	* tc-score.c: Remove unnecessary uses of _().
	Make the err_msg[] a file level local array in order to save
	storage space.
	Remove unnecessary sprintf()s.
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