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Subject: Re: [RFC] cleanup patches for strings
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cutaway@bellsouth.net wrote:
> There is a way to defeat the GCC string alignments by putting the strings in
> a dynamically sized structure if anyone cares.  A bonus side effect of this
> scheme is that kernel/driver NLS translations would become almost trivial
> because all the string texts are collected in one place.
> 
> The basic idea looks like this:
> 
> #define MSG1 "Message text blah"
> #define MSG2 "Message text blah, blah"
> #define MSG3 "Message text blah, blah, blah"
> 
> #ifndef __GCC_FORMAT_STRING_CHECKS__
> static const struct
>     {
>     char m1[sizeof(MSG1)+1];
>     char m2[sizeof(MSG2)+1];
>     char m3[sizeof(MSG3)+1];
>     } msg = {
>     {MSG1},
>     {MSG2},
>     {MSG3}
>     };
> #undef MSG1
> #undef MSG2
> #undef MSG3
> #define MSG1 msg.m1
> #define MSG2 msg.m2
> #define MSG3 msg.m3
> #endif
> 

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

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				Brian Gerst