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Re: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages?
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:24:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages?
- References: <4D718A22.3020302@vmware.com> <20110307105158.GZ30306@adacore.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:51:58 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> > + 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?
You mean, use "could not" instead of "couldn't"? Why is that an
issue?