https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80055
--- Comment #9 from Roland Illig <roland.illig at gmx dot de> --- (In reply to Frederic Marchal from comment #8) > Two years later, I appear to be the only active translator. I translated all > the messages. So, cutting down the number of messages is not an issue I feel > overly concerned with :-) I'm still there as the second active translator. I took a different strategy of translating the internal errors. I just prefixed each of them with "Interner Compilerfehler: " and then took the English text verbatim. I still think this is the best strategy since it provides a bit of information to the compiler user in their language, and provides the GCC developers with the original error message that can be quickly found in the source code. I never actually checked to see how these messages look like in practice. Is there a hidden command line option --force-internal-compiler-error somewhere? It should be quite hard to produce an ICE in any other way. If the prefix would now be doubled, I could as well remove it from all the "translated" German messages.