Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what is the meaning of leading "_" in gcc function calls?

2017-10-01 Thread Jean-François Bilodeau
It's GNU gettext, which is used to localize applications. The _() macro is used to loads a localize string. https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/index.html J-F On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > currently digging through the git source

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what is the meaning of leading "_" in gcc function calls?

2017-10-01 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 17:47:50 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > currently digging through the git source code, and i'm seeing some > function calls of the form: > > if (size < len) > die(_("too-short tree file")); > > i'm ashamed to admit, i'm not

[OCLUG-Tech] what is the meaning of leading "_" in gcc function calls?

2017-10-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently digging through the git source code, and i'm seeing some function calls of the form: if (size < len) die(_("too-short tree file")); i'm ashamed to admit, i'm not sure what the above represents -- the underscore embedded in that function call? what does it mean? rday