Re: [DOCPATCH] Spelling and Grammar fixes from Dave Fluri: mainline

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, James Morrison wrote:
> This is another patch from the gnupress review of the gcc manual.  The
> original fixes are from[1] which was mailed[2] in April.  Simon and I have
> both converted this into a patch, but Dave has done the work.
>
> James A. Morrison
> [1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnupress/2003-04/txt00007.txt
> [2] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnupress/2003-04/msg00117.html
>
> 2003-04-24  Dave Fluri  <dave.fluri@onlink.net>
>
> 	* doc/extend.texi: Fixes to spelling, grammar, and diction.

Thanks!  I reviewed this patch and committed it without the following hunk
which I believe may not keep the semantics of that paragraph:

@@ -2725,9 +2725,9 @@
 @c changed later by "packed" attributes.

 Otherwise, an attribute specifier appears as part of a declaration,
-counting declarations of unnamed parameters and type names, and relates
+counting declarations of unnamed parameters and type names.  It relates
 to that declaration (which may be nested in another declaration, for
-example in the case of a parameter declaration), or to a particular declarator
+example, parameter declarations), or to a particular declarator
 within a declaration.  Where an
 attribute specifier is applied to a parameter declared as a function or
 an array, it should apply to the function or array rather than the

Gerald