From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: "Martin M. Hunt" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfc/rfa:doc] INTEGER_TO_ADDRESS; Was: INTEGER_TO_ADDRESS(), thoughts? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:05:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BC4E218.90205@cygnus.com> References: <3BA7F150.9060302@cygnus.com> <3BBB751B.70601@cygnus.com> <3405-Thu04Oct2001081034+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200110102213.PAA10458@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00125.html > > It is wrong. "pass" must be "passes" to match the singular "user". I'll fix this. Thanks. > "their" is singular in this context and has been used as a gender-neutral > pronoun for at least 500 years. Likewise "they" is singular in this context. This is more interesting. While it has been in common (spoken) use for 500 years, acceptance of the written / formal form appears to only recently have gained some form of offical acceptance. Macquarie (OZ) was explicit on this, Oxford (CA) was more vague. I should probably try to check Webester's new speak. Anyway, we're all speaking / writing Strine, eh? enjoy, Andrew