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Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.


Joseph, I hate to be a gadfly, but can you explain the rationale here?
Is there an ISO standard somewhere stipulating that incomplete and/or
incorrect documentation must also be misspelled, or that two wrongs
make a right?

--Zem

On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 11:59 US/Pacific, Kazu Hirata wrote:

Hi Joseph,

The spellings here are deliberate.
Should I revert that part?
Yes.
Done.

Kazu Hirata

2002-12-17 Kazu Hirata <kazu@cs.umass.edu>

* doc/c-tree.texi: Restore deliberate spelling mistakes.

Index: c-tree.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -r1.38 c-tree.texi
--- c-tree.texi 17 Dec 2002 19:52:29 -0000
+++ c-tree.texi 17 Dec 2002 16:47:43 -0000 1.38
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
@node Deficiencies
@section Deficiencies

-There are many places in which this document is incomplet and incorrekt.
+There are many places in which this document is incomplete and incorrect.
It is, as of yet, only @emph{preliminary} documentation.

@c ---------------------------------------------------------------------


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