Re: [fortran,patch] fix typos

[Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>]

Hi,

Brooks Moses wrote:
>> I reverted to "discontiguous"; I also incorporated the change to
>> -Wimplicit-interface as suggested by Bernhard Fischer.
>
> Google does find a lot of people using "discontiguous", though, so
> maybe it's a real word.  On the other hand, "noncontiguous" is more
> common, and I think it sounds a lot better.

With "non-" there is always the question how to spell is "noncontiguous"
(as suggested here) or "non-contiguous" as suggested in your previous email?


I did a grep -c  in gcc and the result is:

discontiguous: 25
noncontiguous: 5
non-contiguous: 44

Among them
** non-contiguous **
./gcc/doc/tm.texi
./gcc/ada/gnat_rm.texi

** noncontiguous **
./gcc/doc/extend.texi
./gcc/ada/gnat_rm.texi

** discontiguous **
./boehm-gc/doc/README
(./gcc/fortran/invoke.texi)

Should we change to "non(-)contiguous" or leave the "discontiguous"?


Just for fun:
* Oxford English Dictionary lists "discontiguous" (dateline: 1793, 1792,
1861) ["non-contiguous" is also listed; (maybe also without hyphen;
can't see this)].
* Marriam-Webster does not list "discontiguous", only "noncontiguous".
* Oxford Reference Online lists neither words and uses "noncontiguous"
in two lemmata.
* Google finds 185,000 entries for discontiguous and 1,600,000 for
non(-)contiguous.
* The British National Corpus lists "discontiguous" once,
"non-contiguous" 5 times and "noncontiguous" zero times.

Tobias