Re: sharutils does not build with -Werror=format-security

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:15:09 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Organization	UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Bruce Korb wrote:
> That makes i18n an interesting challenge.

Yes, the assumption is that the translation libraries
are protected from tampering, just as much as the
application itself is; otherwise, one can attack
the application by supplying bogus translations.
So you're right that if FOO is safe to use as
a format string, then _(FOO) should be safe too.