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Re: [patch] Follow spelling conventions.
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Kazu Hirata <kazu at cs dot umass dot edu>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:57:01 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: [patch] Follow spelling conventions.
- References: <20031212.192502.48809167.kazu@cs.umass.edu>
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Kazu Hirata wrote:
> Committed as obvious without a ChangeLog entry. (See
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-10/msg00667.html.)
The binutils list is not the appropriate place to discuss GCC policies;
they should (if going beyond what the GNU Coding Standards say, "describe
all the changes made to program source files") be discussed on the GCC
lists and if agreed then documented in codingconventions.html. Remember
that typo fixes in comments can break bootstrap (if they lengthen a line
of Ada source so as to fall foul of the style checks the Ada front end
uses) and can be wrong (if what seems to be a typo is in fact an obscure
word); someone looking at ChangeLogs for the cause of bootstrap failure
(in the first case) or reading diffs (e.g. between snapshots) and spotting
the spurious change that has appeared should be able to spot the log for
the errant patch therein.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk