[Mingw-users] MS message file specification and windmc

[Luke A. <luk...@gm...>]

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

Can / should this be fixed? It's probably unrelated to mingw but I'm
interested in hearing from others.

Thanks,

Luke