From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jimb@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [c++] Pointer to member overhaul
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061231234933.GA29790@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ups9zad5m.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:55:33AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:40:43 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >
> > > The sentence "CONTENTS is the bytes forming the pointer to method"
> > > isn't grammatical.
> >
> > Actually I disagree. CONTENTS is a singular noun here, the pointer
> > whose name is "contents".
>
> How about
>
> "CONTENTS is the byte pattern representing the pointer to method."
>
> A similar wording is used a few lines below the one being disputed.
Works for me. Thank you.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-31 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-29 2:55 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-29 19:06 ` Jim Blandy
2006-12-31 22:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-31 22:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-31 23:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-01-03 18:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 15:47 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-01-08 15:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 16:02 ` Ulrich Weigand
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