From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>,
brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA/sparc] pb doing next over struct-return function
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411231945.iANJjpri007578@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> of "Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:29:40 +0200." <01c4d14f$Blat.v2.2.2$de142420@zahav.net.il>
> > an "unimp" instruction.
> > ^ ^
>
> Really? I'm not a native English speaker, but I think "a unimp" is
> correct. It's like "a university", isn't it?
Well, not really. "University" starts with the semi-consonant sound
"y" (I'm sure there is more formal term than semi-consonant, but I am
no linguist), whereas "unimp" starts with a vowel sound, "uh" as in
"onion".
> Perhaps "the unimp instruction" would be better, though, since it's a
> name of a specific instruction.
Would be a conservative choice, but alas the context refers to an
instruction INSTANCE, not an instruction category. Thus, the
implication of "the" would be either that there is one and only one
unimp instruction in the universe, and here it is, or that I had
previously identified a small section of my assembly listing, and I am
now referring to the one unimp instruction in that section.
Paul Hilfinger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-23 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-23 5:35 Joel Brobecker
2004-11-23 8:33 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-11-23 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-23 12:06 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-23 19:57 ` Paul Hilfinger [this message]
2004-11-23 19:29 ` Joel Brobecker
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