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Re: [DOC PATCH] Rewrite docs for inline asm


On 04/26/2014 10:33 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>> +any symbols it references. This may result in those symbols getting discarded 
>>> >> +by GCC as unreferenced.
> We can omit "by GCC" here.

We can, but we should not.  We should avoid the passive voice like the
plague in technical documentation, even if doing so leads to some
slight redundancy.

Andrew.


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