From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19649 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2010 17:28:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 19639 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jul 2010 17:28:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:28:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 15301 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2010 17:28:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 1 Jul 2010 17:28:04 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:28:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.31-10-rt; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <201006251931.57860.pedro@codesourcery.com> <201007011449.54153.pedro@codesourcery.com> <83r5jn9ljm.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83r5jn9ljm.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201007011828.03627.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 On Thursday 01 July 2010 18:09:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Pedro Alves > > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0100 > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > >=20 > > 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 says: > >=20 > > "L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name = in > > English (play /=CB=88=C9=9Bl/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]" > >=20 > > So, which one should we use? Is this an American English vs other > > flavours issue? >=20 > I don't know about flavors, but every instance I saw used "ell". >=20 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)" --=20 Pedro Alves 2010-07-01 Pedro Alves * gdb.texinfo (General Query Packets) : Spell out `l' as ell. --- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --- 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}).=20=20 +with @samp{l} (lower-case ell, for @dfn{last}). Refer to @ref{thread-id syntax}, for the format of the @var{thread-id} fields. =20