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Re: Error in GCC documentation page
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>
- Cc: Trevor Smedley <trevor dot smedley at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:56:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: Error in GCC documentation page
- References: <ED143668-9DBB-4477-8561-4BC60C4652DA@gmail.com> <4C34C386.3000403@oracle.com>
On 7 July 2010 19:12, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 08:02 PM, Trevor Smedley wrote:
>> On the page http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html the term "integral" is used twice in the section " Built-in Function: long __builtin_expect (long exp, long c)", where what is intended is "integer".
>>
> I'm not a native English speaker, and would like to know more about that
> use, but can't be *that* bad if you can find it also in the ISO C++
> Standard ;)
The usage is correct in "standardese" and English.
My dictionary gives one definition of "integral" as "denoting a number
that is an integer".