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Re: can we avoid using contractions in GDB messages?


> 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?


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