Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

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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