Re: xstrtol.h

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 7/22/2007 5:03 AM:
> 
> It is clearer what the message is referring to. And also --skip-bytes is a
> string that does not require translation, therefore the macro invocation
> actually can read
> 
>   STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR (optarg, "--skip-bytes", s_err);
> 
> All uses of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR are in this category:
> 
> ./src/od.c:         STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR (optarg, _("skip argument"), s_err);
> --skip-bytes argument

CVS head m4 also uses xstrtol for --nesting-limit and --debuglen, so a
patch along these lines will benefit the translation of multiple packages.

> 
> I can prepare a patch for this; just let me know whether for
>    $ od -j -1
> you would see the error message
>    od: invalid --skip-bytes argument `-1'
> or
>    od: invalid `-j' argument `-1'

I would prefer the long option name.

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