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Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>, brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:33:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error
- References: <200812290335.09199.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200812291426.59784.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20081231035705.GA31595@adacore.com> <200901072159.29879.pedro@codesourcery.com> <uy6xkk146.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> + set_doc = xstrprintf (_("Configure what GDB does when an %s is detected."),
>> + problem->name);
>> +
>> + show_doc = xstrprintf (_("Show what GDB does when an %s is detected."),
>> + problem->name);
>
> I would lose the "an" part: this is general infrastructure, so even if
> all the currently known problem names fit "an", we cannot guarantee
> that to be so in the future. There's no need here for an article,
> anyway, as something like
>
> Show what GDB does when FOO is detected.
>
> sounds perfectly correct English to me.
In any case it is still impossible to properly translate, as it may
depend on what FOO actually is.
Andreas.
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