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RE: [RFC] porting to gcc-4.3 docs


On 10 January 2008 22:47, Joe Buck wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:32:28PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> 
>>>   In addition, improvements to the GCC infrastructure allows several
>>>   existing warning flags new ability to spot problematic code.
>>> 
>>> Is this sentence okay?  I'm not a native speaker, so I might miss a
>>> nuance here.
>> 
>> No, it's badly worded, but fixing it seems to be more than a matter of
>> rephrasing.  It's basically saying that existing warning flags will
>> produce warnings, but I'd prefer to see something more specific.
> 
>            ^- s/warnings/additional warnings/, or maybe "fewer false
> positives" as well.

" In addition, improvements to the GCC infrastructure allow
improvements in the ability of several existing warnings to
spot problematic code" ?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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