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Re: Patch for "front end"/"front-end" etc. terminology
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Patch for "front end"/"front-end" etc. terminology
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:48:28 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This patch attempts to make the use of "front end"/"front-end" and
> "back end"/"back-end" consistent in the manual. It passes "make info"
> and "make dvi". Applied to mainline. (I'd like this considered for
> the 3.0 branch as well.)
> 2001-06-21 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
>
> * doc/c-tree.texi, doc/contrib.texi, doc/extend.texi,
> doc/gcc.texi, doc/install-old.texi, doc/install.texi,
> doc/invoke.texi, doc/rtl.texi: Consistently use "front end" and
> "back end" as nouns and "front-end" and "back-end" as adjectives.
Please move it to the branch as well.
Thanks,
Gerald (catching up *tons* of messages, so please bear with me)