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Re: GCC 3.1 Released
- From: Nicola Pero <nicola at brainstorm dot co dot uk>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, shebs at apple dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:58:52 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Released
> > > Nope. It's `run-time library'.
> > >
> >
> > Ok - thanks - committed this fix as obvious (btw, I noticed there is
> > another 'runtime' in the same file ... you may want to fix that too).
>
> Please also document these spelling rules in the table in
> codingconventions.html.
Ok - What about the following ? Does it reflect the suggestions other
have made ? (I also added a missing <td></td> to the Objective-C entry).
--- codingconventions.html 29 Apr 2002 19:49:31 -0000 1.16
+++ codingconventions.html 22 May 2002 10:55:53 -0000
@@ -244,10 +244,29 @@
<tr>
<td>"Objective-C"</td>
<td>"Objective C"</td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>"Objective-C run-time system"</td>
+ <td>"Objective C runtime"</td>
+ <td>Terminology used in widespread Objective-C
+ documentation.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>"PowerPC"</td>
<td>"powerpc", "powerPC" or "PowerPc"</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>"run time" (noun)</td>
+ <td>"runtime" or "run-time"</td>
+ <td>To be used as in 'This thing is done at run time rather than
+ at compile time.'</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>"run-time" (adjective)</td>
+ <td>"runtime" or "run time"</td>
+ <td>To be used as in 'the GNU Objective-C run-time system', or
+ the 'GNU Objective-C run-time library'.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>"SPARC"</td>