From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unfamiliar notation
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:46:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070910014643.GA22800@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IUXwl-0001Kp-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:20:15AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <1189386541.7365.50.camel@Tachyon.home> you wrote:
> > What's the deal with the underscore and the parentheses surrounding the
> > call to menu_get_help?
>
> it is a macro from gettext, used to translate the string. Usually this
> should only be used on string constants.
Correct.
And only in kconfig since this is the only piece of code supporting gettext in the kernel.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 1:09 unfamiliar notation James C. Georgas
2007-09-10 1:20 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-10 1:46 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-09-11 2:15 ` Oleg Verych
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