From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16878 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2012 17:51:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 16870 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jun 2012 17:51:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx.meyering.net (HELO mx.meyering.net) (88.168.87.75) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:51:08 +0000 Received: from rho.meyering.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister) with ESMTP id 0F57A600BA; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 19:51:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: many typo fixes In-Reply-To: <8762b1emhf.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:34:36 -0600") References: <87k3zut5xx.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <8762b1emhf.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87wr3hheus.fsf@rho.meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2012-06/txt/msg00242.txt.bz2 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering writes: > > Jim> Massaging the output of http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check, > > Jim> Also, beware of the few suggested transforms that map from all-caps > Jim> like "LENGHT" to leading-cap-only "Length". > > Jim> This is deliberately just an FYI, not an actual patch. > Jim> I'll let someone else write the actual patch. > > I looked at this a little today. > > It needed some further tweaks, as it is also applying patches to the > code, in some cases breaking it. At least, that is the case when I ran > it myself -- I don't see the specific problem I noticed in your list, > which is odd since I just used your script... Maybe because the underlying tool is evolving and we were using different versions. > Anyway once I did that I realized I didn't really trust the output, and > I didn't really want to do a detailed review the whole patch by hand. > It's rather large and boring. You can't rely on the compiler because > not every file is compiled on every host... > > So I think I'm going to drop it. If you want to make a patch for gdb, > though, ... :) Completely understandable. Yes, it's very boring ;-)