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can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? (was: "[commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return.")
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:51:58 +0400
- Subject: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages? (was: "[commit] symfile.c (simple_overlay_update): Check for null return.")
- References: <4D718A22.3020302@vmware.com>
Just a suggestion. It's really a detail, and I won't push for us
to adopt this suggestion, but:
> + if (minsym == NULL)
> + error (_("Error reading inferior's overlay table: couldn't "
> + "find `_ovly_table' array\n"
> + "in inferior. Use `overlay manual' mode."));
I'm not very fond of contractions in error messages (or any message
printed by GDB). I know there is plenty of "prior art" of our use
of contractions in the output, but I just think it looks better to
spell words completely. For the future, can we agree on avoiding
contractions?
--
Joel