https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78745
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Assignee|unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org |jakub at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #7 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Created attachment 40426 --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=40426&action=edit gcc7-pr78745.patch Untested fix. For the multiple line help texts, opt-gather.awk concatenates those lines with SUBSEP in between them, and opt-read.awk then replaces those SUBSEP separators with spaces: help[n_opts] = $3 for (i = 4; i <= NF; i++) help[n_opts] = help[n_opts] " " $i With this patch, there are changes like: #: config/arm/arm.opt:231 -msgid "Print CPU tuning information as comment in assembler file. This is" +msgid "" +"Print CPU tuning information as comment in assembler file. This is an " +"option used only for regression testing of the compiler and not intended for " +"ordinary use in compiling code." msgstr "" in the gcc.pot file.