microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Add some automated check in import_edge_strings.js to check if the loc string count is correct
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Description
It seems like it might be possible to add a check in import_edge_strings.js to check if the number loc strings in message.json matches the count of English strings that EDG expects in error_msg.txt. That would prevent crashes like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/11336 .
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Start in import_edge_strings.js and inspect how it reads message.json and the English strings in error_msg.txt. Add an automated count comparison so mismatches are reported before the generated data can cause the EDG crash described in issue 11336; done means an incorrect count is detected clearly.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100