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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:11:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error
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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:29:14 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > > +const char internal_problem_ask[] = "ask";
> > > +const char internal_problem_yes[] = "yes";
> > > +const char internal_problem_no[] = "no";
> > 
> > Don't we want these strings to be translatable?  The questions we ask
> > about what to do are.
> 
> I would say no. These are arguments used in  a command

Then why use a string for that purpose?  Someone, some day might be
tempted to use that string in some prompt or message, at which point
we lose.