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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:16:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error
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> 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.