From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16772 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2011 19:46:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 16764 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jul 2011 19:46:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:46:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812262BB205; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:46:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GwIoAk4GDnik; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:46:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDB12BB139; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:46:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C2102145615; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:49:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: gdb-patches ml Subject: Re: [RFC] s/preceed/precede/ Message-ID: <20110704194610.GR2407@adacore.com> References: <1309807927.4471.12.camel@hactar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1309807927.4471.12.camel@hactar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2011-07/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 > (From the "I should be spending my time in my priority tasks" series.) :-) > It looks like "preceed" is wrong and "precede" is right. I can't find > "preceed" in neither Merriam-Webster nor dictionary.com. Also, there are > many places using "precede" in GDB's source code. > > But "preceed" is so common that I'm not so sure about this patch. > Perhaps it's just an alternative spelling? As far as I can tell "preceed" is not correct. In fact, I can see pages where this is explicitly listed as a mispelling. For instance, the following Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines And I found evidence that he same fix was made in the ZSH code. Sometimes, it's tricky, because British and American spelling sometimes differ. But it looks like you there is only one correct spelling in this case. > 2011-07-04 Thiago Jung Bauermann > > gdb/ > * ada-lang.c: Fix typos. > * amd64-tdep.c: Likewise. > * breakpoint.c: Likewise. > * cli/cli-decode.c: Likewise. > * findcmd.c: Likewise. > * inline-frame.c: Likewise. > * mi/mi-main.c: Likewise. > * minsyms.c: Likewise. > * monitor.c: Likewise. > * monitor.h: Likewise. > * prologue-value.c: Likewise. > * reverse.c: Likewise. > * s390-tdep.c: Likewise. > > gdb/testsuite/ > * gdb.base/call-sc.c: Likewise. > * gdb.base/ifelse.exp: Likewise. > * gdb.base/structs.c: Likewise. > > gdb/doc/ > * gdb.texinfo: Likewise. OK. -- Joel