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[wwwdocs] Consistently spell the noun "front end"
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 17:23:52 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: [wwwdocs] Consistently spell the noun "front end"
I noticed this on one recent page, and looking into it then ended
up fixing a dozen more, historical and current.
Committed.
Gerald
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diff -u -r1.40 frontends.html
--- htdocs/frontends.html 28 Dec 2016 00:55:24 -0000 1.40
+++ htdocs/frontends.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:30 -0000
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
<li><a href="http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/";>GNU Modula-2</a> implements
the PIM2, PIM3, PIM4 and ISO dialects of the language. The compiler
is fully operational with the GCC 4.1.2 back end (on GNU/Linux x86
-systems). Work is in progress to move the frontend to the GCC trunk.
-The frontend is mostly written in Modula-2, but includes a bootstrap
+systems). Work is in progress to move the front end to the GCC trunk.
+The front end is mostly written in Modula-2, but includes a bootstrap
procedure via a heavily modified version of p2c.</li>
<li>Modula-3 (for links see <a
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--- htdocs/index.html 27 Mar 2018 13:34:41 -0000 1.1079
+++ htdocs/index.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:30 -0000
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@
<span class="date">[2017-02-02]</span></dt>
<dd>Support for the <a href="https://riscv.org";>RISC-V ISA</a> was added, contributed by Palmer Dabbelt and Andrew Waterman.</dd>
-<dt><span>BRIG/HSAIL (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Intermediate Language) frontend added</span>
+<dt><span>BRIG/HSAIL (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Intermediate Language) front end added</span>
<span class="date">[2017-02-01]</span></dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.hsafoundation.com/";> Heterogeneous Systems
Architecture 1.0</a> BRIG (HSAIL)
- <a href="gcc-7/changes.html#brig">frontend was added to GCC</a>,
+ <a href="gcc-7/changes.html#brig">front end was added to GCC</a>,
enabling HSAIL finalization for gcc-supported
targets. The code was developed by
<a href="http://parmance.com";>Parmance</a> with sponsorship from
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diff -u -r1.159 news.html
--- htdocs/news.html 18 Nov 2017 01:08:36 -0000 1.159
+++ htdocs/news.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:31 -0000
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
<dt>December 2, 2010</dt>
<dd><a href="gcc-4.6/changes.html#go">GCC 4.6</a> will support
the <a href="https://golang.org/";>Go programming language</a>. The
- new frontend was contributed by Ian Lance Taylor at Google.</dd>
+ new front end was contributed by Ian Lance Taylor at Google.</dd>
<dt>November 16, 2010</dt>
<dd><a href="gcc-4.6/changes.html#libquadmath">GCC 4.6</a> will include the
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@
Broadband Engine Architecture (BEA).</dd>
<dt>January 1, 2007</dt>
-<dd>2006 has been a very productive year for the new Fortran frontend,
+<dd>2006 has been a very productive year for the new Fortran front end,
with <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-01/msg00059.html";>lots
of improvements and fixes</a>.</dd>
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diff -u -r1.218 svn.html
--- htdocs/svn.html 27 Jul 2017 09:17:28 -0000 1.218
+++ htdocs/svn.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:32 -0000
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@
be marked with the tag [4_4-plugins] in the Subject line.</dd>
<dt>gccgo</dt>
- <dd>This branch is for the Go frontend to gcc. For more information
+ <dd>This branch is for the Go front end to gcc. For more information
about the Go programming language,
see <a href="https://golang.org/";>https://golang.org</a>. The
branch is maintained by Ian Lance Taylor. Patches should be
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diff -u -r1.121 index.html
--- htdocs/bugs/index.html 1 Dec 2017 01:18:03 -0000 1.121
+++ htdocs/bugs/index.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:32 -0000
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@
<p>Non-conforming legacy code that worked with older versions of GCC may be
rejected by more recent compilers. There is no command-line switch to ensure
compatibility in general, because trying to parse standard-conforming and
-old-style code at the same time would render the C++ frontend unmaintainable.
+old-style code at the same time would render the C++ front end unmaintainable.
However, some non-conforming constructs are allowed when the command-line
option <code>-fpermissive</code> is used.</p>
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--- htdocs/egcs-1.1/c++features.html 11 Feb 2002 09:47:47 -0000 1.5
+++ htdocs/egcs-1.1/c++features.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:33 -0000
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
* protected virtual inheritance is now supported.
* Loops are optimized better; we now move the test to the end in most
- cases, like the C frontend does.
+ cases, like the C front end does.
* For class D derived from B which has a member 'int i', &D::i is now of
type 'int B::*' instead of 'int D::*'.
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--- htdocs/gcc-2.95/c++features.html 23 Jan 2002 15:42:26 -0000 1.7
+++ htdocs/gcc-2.95/c++features.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:33 -0000
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
* protected virtual inheritance is now supported.
* Loops are optimized better; we now move the test to the end in most
- cases, like the C frontend does.
+ cases, like the C front end does.
* For class D derived from B which has a member 'int i', &D::i is now of
type 'int B::*' instead of 'int D::*'.
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--- htdocs/gcc-3.4/changes.html 30 Dec 2016 14:48:58 -0000 1.163
+++ htdocs/gcc-3.4/changes.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:34 -0000
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
<a href="#3.4.6">GCC 3.4.6</a>. The series is now closed.</p>
<p><em>GCC 3.4 has <a href="#cplusplus">many improvements in the C++
-frontend</a>. Before reporting a bug, please make sure it's really GCC,
+front end</a>. Before reporting a bug, please make sure it's really GCC,
and not your code, that is broken.</em></p>
<h2>Caveats</h2>
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--- htdocs/gcc-4.0/changes.html 29 Mar 2017 16:26:00 -0000 1.70
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.0/changes.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:34 -0000
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
<ul>
<li>When compiling without optimizations (<code>-O0</code>), the C++
- frontend is <em>much</em> faster than in any previous
+ front end is <em>much</em> faster than in any previous
versions of GCC. Independent testers have measured speed-ups up to
25% in real-world production code, compared to the 3.4 family (which
was already the fastest version to date). Upgrading from older
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
<li>Many bugs have been fixed, tools and documentation improved.</li>
<li>To compile Ada from the sources, install an older working Ada compiler
and then use <code>--enable-languages=ada</code> at configuration time,
- since the Ada frontend is not currently activated by default. See
+ since the Ada front end is not currently activated by default. See
the <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/install/";>Installing GCC</a>
for details.
</li>
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--- htdocs/gcc-4.2/changes.html 7 Feb 2017 23:06:23 -0000 1.42
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.2/changes.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:35 -0000
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
To suppress the warning in valid cases, use <code>{ }</code> instead.
</li>
<li>
- The C++ frontend now also produces strict aliasing warnings when
+ The C++ front end now also produces strict aliasing warnings when
<code>-fstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing</code> is in effect.
</li>
</ul>
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--- htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 3 Mar 2017 10:07:32 -0000 1.146
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:35 -0000
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@
complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed
are not listed here).</p>
-<p>The Go frontend in the 4.7.1 release fully supports
+<p>The Go front end in the 4.7.1 release fully supports
the <a href="https://golang.org/doc/go1";>Go 1 language
standard.</a></p>
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--- htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 10 Oct 2017 08:18:28 -0000 1.148
+++ htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:36 -0000
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@
functions from bytecode to machine code</a>.</p>
<p>The library can also be used for ahead-of-time compilation, enabling
-GCC to be plugged into a pre-existing frontend. An example of using
+GCC to be plugged into a pre-existing front end. An example of using
this to build a compiler for an esoteric language we'll refer to as "brainf"
can be seen <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.1.0/jit/intro/tutorial05.html";>
here</a>.</p>
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--- htdocs/gcc-7/changes.html 1 Apr 2018 22:56:06 -0000 1.100
+++ htdocs/gcc-7/changes.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:37 -0000
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@
<h3 id="java">Java (GCJ)</h3>
-<p>The GCC Java frontend and associated libjava runtime library have been
+<p>The GCC Java front end and associated libjava runtime library have been
removed from GCC.</p>
<!-- .................................................................. -->
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@
<ul>
<li>GCC now has an internal unit-testing API and a suite of tests
for programmatic self-testing of subsystems.</li>
- <li>GCC's C frontend has been extended so that it can parse dumps of
+ <li>GCC's C front end has been extended so that it can parse dumps of
GCC's internal representations, allowing for DejaGnu tests
that more directly exercise specific optimization passes. This
covers both the
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--- htdocs/projects/ast-optimizer.html 27 Jun 2014 15:04:40 -0000 1.8
+++ htdocs/projects/ast-optimizer.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:37 -0000
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
<p>Historically, GCC generated RTL one statement at a time, so
the AST did not stay around very long. This has changed with 'function
at a time' compilation (<a href="../news/inlining.html">Inliner</a>),
-which both C and C++ frontends now implement. With the AST for complete
+which both C and C++ front ends now implement. With the AST for complete
functions, and the additional semantic information they contain, the
opportunity for new optimizations presents itself.</p>
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
<h3>Move AST optimizers into the common middle end</h3>
<p>Although C and C++ both have function at a time mode, the AST new
-inliner is only in the C++ frontend.</p>
+inliner is only in the C++ front end.</p>
<h3>Provable optimizer performance</h3>
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--- htdocs/projects/beginner.html 3 Feb 2017 08:16:13 -0000 1.65
+++ htdocs/projects/beginner.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:37 -0000
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
</li>
<li>Eliminate support for compiling with traditional C compilers in
-the language frontend subdirectories.
+the language front end subdirectories.
<p>See: <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-06/msg00871.html";>this
announcement</a> and the discussion following it which clarifies the
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--- htdocs/projects/cfg.html 11 Mar 2017 23:40:55 -0000 1.23
+++ htdocs/projects/cfg.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:37 -0000
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
<h4>Theory</h4>
-<p>The current loop optimizer uses information passed by frontend
+<p>The current loop optimizer uses information passed by the front end
to discover loop constructs to simplify flow analysis.
It is difficult to keep the information up-to-date and nowday
it is easy to implement the loop discovery code on CFG.
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--- htdocs/projects/cli.html 27 Jan 2017 21:09:05 -0000 1.29
+++ htdocs/projects/cli.html 2 Apr 2018 15:16:37 -0000
@@ -342,14 +342,14 @@
<h2><a name="frontend">The CLI front end</a></h2>
-<p>The objective of the project was to create a new GCC frontend able
+<p>The objective of the project was to create a new GCC front end able
to take a .NET executable as input, and produce optimized native code
as output.</p>
-<p>This frontend, called <i>gcccil</i>, would allow us to
+<p>This front end, called <i>gcccil</i>, would allow us to
achieve two goals:</p>
<ul>
- <li><p>The new frontend would provide a validation of a complete
+ <li><p>The new front end would provide a validation of a complete
static compilation path from C to native code using CIL as
intermediate format. This would allow using CIL as a distribution
format for executables. In this model, the CIL image could be
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
customer could recompile said image for the native platform that he
prefers using GCC.</p></li>
- <li><p>The frontend would provide a way of producing native
+ <li><p>The front end would provide a way of producing native
executables from CIL images.</p></li>
</ul>
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@
<p><i>Gcccil</i> does not implement its own CLR metadata parser.
Instead, it uses <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/";>Mono</a>
to "parse" the input assembly. That is, Mono is used to load the assembly
-and parse the metadata and types. The frontend only has to parse the
+and parse the metadata and types. The front end only has to parse the
actual CIL code of each method. Mono provides a comprehensive API to
allow this.</p>