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Re: [wwwdocs] Document changes in 3.4 for SPARC (rev2)
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>> + <li>A small union is passed or returned in a register; and</li>
>> + <li>its size in bytes is lesser than 8.</li>
>> "less"
> Sure? Is "lesser than" not the standard reading for "<"?
Relatively, yes.
I also checked Google now, and that give 9,390,000 hits for "less than"
versus 26,100 for "lesser than". (Not that this is the ultimate resource
for the English language, but in cases like this it has proven useful to
me. <g>)
>> And I do think this really ought to be an entry in the news section of
>> our main page.
> I don't see such an entry for MIPS. So my egalitarian French mind :-) is
> very reluctant to adding one for SPARC.
Shouldn't we rather just add an entry for MIPS as well? :-)
Gerald