[Bug binutils/13971] New: windmc: default severity and facility message fields according to MS

[lukeallardyce at yahoo dot co.uk]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13971

             Bug #: 13971
           Summary: windmc: default severity and facility message fields
                    according to MS
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.22
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden
    Classification: Unclassified


According to

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd996906%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

the message compiler should automatically insert the previous values
for severity and facility if they are not defined for a given message:

Severity=name
[...] If no value is specified, the value used is the value last
specified for a message definition.[...]

Facility=name
[...] If no value is specified, the value used is the value last
specified for a message definition.[...]

e.g. the following file

LanguageNames=(English=0x9:eng)

MessageId=
Facility=Application
Severity=Success
SymbolicName=SUCCESS
Language=English
Completed.
.

MessageId=
Severity=Informational
SymbolicName=PROCESSING
Language=English
Processing s%1...
.

MessageId=
SymbolicName=WAITING
Language=English
Waiting for s%1...
.

Should output a header file with the following defines:

#define SUCCESS  0xfff0001
#define PROCESSING  0x4fff0002
#define WAITING  0x4fff0003

Instead the output I get with binutils 2.22 as distributed with mingw
is as follows

#define SUCCESS  0xfff0001
#define PROCESSING  0x40000002
#define WAITING  0x3

i.e. the facility and severity fields are set to 0

Not a big deal although it would help make message files smaller if this could
be implemented. Thanks.

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