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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: pedro@codesourcery.com, brobecker@adacore.com,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvdsojqeu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jer63cjxz2.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, brobecker@adacore.com,
> 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:33:21 +0100
> 
> >> +  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.

You mean the original phrase with an "an" or what I suggested?  If the
latter, please tell why it cannot be properly translated, because I'm
probably missing something.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29  3:35 Pedro Alves
2008-12-29  4:41 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-12-29 14:27   ` Pedro Alves
2008-12-31  3:57     ` Joel Brobecker
2009-01-07 21:59       ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-09 14:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-09 15:33           ` Andreas Schwab
2009-01-09 18:16             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-01-09 20:01               ` Andreas Schwab
2009-01-09 20:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-09 20:15                   ` Andreas Schwab
2009-01-09 20:26                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-09 21:37                       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-01-10  9:04                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 23:19                           ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-26  3:53                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-26 16:27                               ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-09 18:29           ` Joel Brobecker
2009-01-09 20:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-10  6:34               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-01-09 20:36             ` Pedro Alves

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