Re: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)

[Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>]

On Thursday 01 July 2010 18:09:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0100
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > 
> > As promised..  There is only one other instance of "el" or "ell" in
> > the manuals or sources I could find (cd gdb; egrep  " el(l)?(,|\.| )" * -rn),
> > and it was the one I copied from.  I was going to fix it, but, I noticed
> > that <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L> says:
> > 
> >  "L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in
> >  English (play /ˈɛl/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]"
> > 
> > So, which one should we use?  Is this an American English vs other
> > flavours issue?
> 
> I don't know about flavors, but every instance I saw used "ell".
> 

googling for "lowercase el", I see a bunch.  In fact aproximatly
50/50 vs ell.  Anyway, I've applied the patch below to make us
use ell in both cases.

On Thursday 01 July 2010 17:26:08, Michael Snyder wrote:
> You could just say "lower-case 'L'"...

the sentense in question goes:

 "with l (lower-case ell, for last)"

-- 
Pedro Alves

2010-07-01  Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (General Query Packets) <qfThreadInfo,
	qsThreadInfo>: Spell out `l' as ell.

---
 gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	2010-07-01 18:19:10.000000000 +0100
+++ src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	2010-07-01 18:20:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -31744,7 +31744,7 @@ In response to each query, the target wi
 more thread IDs, separated by commas.
 @value{GDBN} will respond to each reply with a request for more thread
 ids (using the @samp{qs} form of the query), until the target responds
-with @samp{l} (lower-case el, for @dfn{last}).  
+with @samp{l} (lower-case ell, for @dfn{last}).
 Refer to @ref{thread-id syntax}, for the format of the @var{thread-id}
 fields.