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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2001-08-22 16:06:53 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2001-08-22 16:06:53 +0000
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(print_and_abort): Explain use of the string.
Diffstat (limited to 'malloc')
-rw-r--r--malloc/obstack.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/malloc/obstack.c b/malloc/obstack.c
index 06b2fbd534..8a02a0b1d4 100644
--- a/malloc/obstack.c
+++ b/malloc/obstack.c
@@ -484,6 +484,11 @@ static void
 __attribute__ ((noreturn))
 print_and_abort ()
 {
+  /* Don't change any of these strings.  Yes, it would be possible to add
+     the newline to the string and use fputs or so.  But this must not
+     happen because the "memory exhausted" message appears in other places
+     like this and the translation should be reused instead of creating
+     a very similar string which requires a separate translation.  */
 #if defined _LIBC && defined USE_IN_LIBIO
   if (_IO_fwide (stderr, 0) > 0)
     __fwprintf (stderr, L"%s\n", _("memory exhausted"));
@@ -500,7 +505,7 @@ print_and_abort ()
 /* Now define the functional versions of the obstack macros.
    Define them to simply use the corresponding macros to do the job.  */
 
-#if defined (__STDC__) && __STDC__
+#if defined __STDC__ && __STDC__
 /* These function definitions do not work with non-ANSI preprocessors;
    they won't pass through the macro names in parentheses.  */