Re: [RFC] cleanup patches for strings

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[email protected] 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
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