Mysterious "save abbrevs"?

[Richard Stallman]

I think I've found the cause of the mysterious "save abbrevs?" questions
in this code in cc-mode.el:

    (define-abbrev-table 'c-mode-abbrev-table
      '(("else" "else" c-electric-continued-statement 0)
        ("while" "while" c-electric-continued-statement 0)))

The question, though, is what to do about it.
I don't think we ever want these abbrevs to be saved in
the user's abbrev file.