[Bug gas/5269] Cryptic Note-messages to translate in gas-2.17.90.fi.po

[nickc at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2007-11-07 11:29 
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Subject: Re:  New: Cryptic Note-messages to translate in        
gas-2.17.90.fi.po

Hi Jorma,

> The first problem here is "gprs". It is actually GPRs or "General-Purpose 
> RegisterS",
> isn't it?

Yes.

> The next problem here is "Note". When I checked with my favorite online
> dictionary, it provides 22 different meaning for "Note". Usually context shows
> what is the meaning of a single word, if there are alternatives, but with 
> these
> short msgids you can't even be sure, if "note" is noun or verb. Actually, 
> when I
> checked with the present translations, it looks that our French and Spannish
> translators have supposed that in this context word "note" is verb, something
> like "Note that...".

This would actually be correct.  The proper meaning of say:

   Note 32 gprs are used

is:

   Set the flag bit in the header of the generated file that indicates
   that this binary was compiled to only use the first 32 general purpose
   registers.

This is a bit wordy for a usage message, so maybe we can agree on something 
shorter.  How about:

   Mark generated file as only using 32 GPRs.

Would this be easier to translate ?


> The following problem is number 32. PowerPC processors include 32
> General-Purpose Registers, but why to tell it?

Err, we are talking about the FRV processor here, not the PowerPC.

> And are there any processors that
> have 64 General-Purpose Registers? 

Some hardware implementations of the FRV core have 64 general purpose 
registers, others only have 32.  Hence the purpose of the flag bit is to let 
the program loaders on FRVs which only have 32 GPRs detect binaries which are 
unable to be run.

Cheers
   Nick


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