Re: [wwwdocs] Document changes in 3.4 for SPARC (rev2)

[Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>]

On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> 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>)

"lesser than" reads very strangely to this native speaker.  I prefer:

A small union is passed or returned in a register, and it  is smaller 
than 8 bytes.