<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> > Importing string constants does not work in PO.</span></font><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> > Strings from same module are shown.</span></font><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">It’s a know issue in PO2013. </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">When a module M exporting</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">a string s is </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">imported by another module N, an </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">object</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">for the </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">imported </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">string M.s is created in the </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">symbol</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">table of N, with the </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">string </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">position (strx) of s</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">within module M (!) is stored </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">in the field </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">obj.val</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">of the generated object.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">However, when during compilation of the importing</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">module N string M.s is referenced</span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">, </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">a string </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">item</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">will by created </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">via </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">ORB.MakeStringItem </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">which copies</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">the string buffer from ORS.str </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">(i.e. the strings of</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">the importing module N = the </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">module currently being</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">compiled), but </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">using </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">the string position of the</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">*imported* </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">module.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">That’s the bug. And the reason why you are</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">seeing the strings </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">from the importing module.</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The fix would be to make string constants aware</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">of modules. Both require rewriting the compiler.</span></font></div></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Method #1 would be to include the actual strings</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">in the symbol files (and not just their string</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">position). </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">However, </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">this would change the</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">format of the symbol file.</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Method #2 would be to </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">change the code generated</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">for expressions </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">containing imported strings,</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">such that they reference external strings</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">constants via the SB of the imported module.</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></body></html>