Currently some code in gdb uses build_help with N_(), like:
static const std::string compile_print_help
= gdb::option::build_help (N_("\
I believe this is incorrect. The N_ macro is used to mark text that
should end up in the message catalog, but which will be translated by
a later call to gettext.
However, in this case, there is no later call to gettext, so (if gdb
had translations), this text would remain untranslated.
Instead, I think using the ordinary _() macro is correct here.
Translators will have to know to preserve "%OPTIONS%" in the text --
but that seems both unavoidable and fine.
Tested by rebuilding as there's not much else to do.
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-08-05 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* compile/compile.c (_initialize_compile): Use _(), not N_().
* thread.c (_initialize_thread): Use _(), not N_().
* stack.c (_initialize_stack): Use _(), not N_().
* printcmd.c (_initialize_printcmd): Use _(), not N_().
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