Hello.
I received this from the Debian bug system:
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From: Jens Seidel <
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To:
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:20:39 +0200
Subject: Bug#547798: [gettext]: gettext.h incompatible with g++ -pedantic
(error: ISO C++ forbids variable length array [UTF-8] msg_ctxt_id)
Package: gettext
Version: 0.17-7
Severity: important
Hi,
compiling
#include "/usr/share/gettext/gettext.h"
int main()
{
return 0;
}
with g++ -pedantic results in:
/usr/share/gettext/gettext.h: In function ÿÿconst char* dcpgettext_expr(const
char*, const char*, const char*, int)ÿÿ:
/usr/share/gettext/gettext.h:201: error: ISO C++ forbids variable length
array ÿÿmsg_ctxt_idÿÿ
/usr/share/gettext/gettext.h: In function ÿÿconst char*
dcnpgettext_expr(const char*, const char*, const char*, const char*, long
unsigned int, int)ÿÿ:
/usr/share/gettext/gettext.h:247: error: ISO C++ forbids variable length
array ÿÿmsg_ctxt_idÿÿ
I work around it by using
#define _LIBGETTEXT_HAVE_VARIABLE_SIZE_ARRAYS \
- (((__GNUC__ >= 3 || __GNUG__ >= 2) && !__STRICT_ANSI__) \
+ (((__GNUC__ >= 3 || __GNUG__ >= 2) && !__STRICT_ANSI__) && !__cplusplus \
but detecting a macro which is set in pedantic mode is probably better.
Jens
