Re: Broken message (extraction) in binutils 2.24.90

[Nicholas Clifton]

Hi Göran,

> In readelf.c, in the macro CHECK_ENTSIZE_VALUES, there is this code
>
>    error (_("Section %d has invalid sh_entsize of %" BFD_VMA_FMT "x\n"), \
>          i, section->sh_entsize);    \
>
> When extracting message strings from this code, only the first part
> will be extracted:
>
>    msgid "Section %d has invalid sh_entsize of %"
>
> Obviously, that isn't the string that will be sent to the function,
> and thus, any translations of this message will be ignored.
>
> A similar problem reappears later in the same file in
> dynamic_sction_mips_val:
>
>    printf (_("<corrupt: %" BFD_VMA_FMT "d>"), entry->d_un.d_ptr);

I have checked in a patch (attached) to fix these problems.

Cheers
  Nick

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