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Re: PATCH: contrib.texi
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>> There were 16 uses of "bugfix" and 3 uses of "bug fix" in contrib.tex and
>> Google votes 390,000 over 307,000 in favor of "bugfix", so I converted the
>> latter to the former.
>
> The winning margin seems to be composed of pages written in German!
> If you select "search for English results only", then "bug fix" wins
> 290,000 to 200,000.
>
> As a native English speaker, I find "bug fix" a lot more natural.
Well, all those instances of "bugfix" in contrib.texi and the EGCS/GCC
2.95 web pages were also due to a native English speaker, but given the
feedback I got from other native speakers (also off-list) I've been
convinced. :-)
(Thanks to everbody who contributed explanations etc.!)
Installed on mainline and the 3.3 branch.
Gerald
2003-04-18 Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
* doc/contrib.texi (Contributors): Prefer "bug fix" over "bugfix".
Add Segher Boessenkool.
Index: contrib.texi
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/contrib.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -3 -p -r1.37 contrib.texi
--- contrib.texi 14 Apr 2003 10:02:30 -0000 1.37
+++ contrib.texi 18 Apr 2003 19:48:17 -0000
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV6
port.
@item
-Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
+Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
@item
Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and l
specifications.
@item
-Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
+Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
@item
Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hook
miscellaneous clean-ups.
@item
+Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
+
+ at item
Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
front end implementation. Initial implementations of
@@ -168,11 +171,11 @@ that print a copy of their source.
Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
@item
-Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bugfixes.
+Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
@item
DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
-various bugfixes.
+various bug fixes.
@item
Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
@@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ libstdc++.
@item
Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
-iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
+iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
@item
Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC at dot
@@ -240,7 +243,7 @@ Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes
Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
@item
-Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
+Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
@item
Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
@@ -275,7 +278,7 @@ Intel 386 and 860 support.
@item
Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
-warnings and assorted bugfixes.
+warnings and assorted bug fixes.
@item
Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
@@ -303,7 +306,7 @@ the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
@item
Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
-of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
+of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
@item
Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
@@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
@item
-Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
+Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
@item
Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
@@ -325,7 +328,7 @@ Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the
@item
Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
-as lots of bugfixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
+as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
system.
@item
@@ -349,7 +352,7 @@ Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to mak
David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS at dot
@item
-Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
+Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
@item
@@ -387,7 +390,7 @@ Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
Mark Klein for PA improvements.
@item
-Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
+Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
@item
Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
@@ -431,7 +434,7 @@ patches.
Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
@item
-Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
+Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
@item
Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
@@ -494,7 +497,7 @@ developers.
Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
@item
-Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
+Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
@item
@@ -745,7 +748,7 @@ Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contr
recently his vxworks contributions
@item
-Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bugfixes, and encouragement.
+Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
@item
Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
@@ -761,7 +764,7 @@ Holger Teutsch provided the support for
Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
@item
-Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
+Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
@item
Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
@@ -771,7 +774,7 @@ Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time s
language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
@item
-Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
+Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
@@ -812,7 +815,7 @@ Dean Wakerley for converting the install
in time for GCC 3.0.
@item
-Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
+Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
@item
Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
@@ -828,7 +831,7 @@ value range propagation and other work,
Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
@item
-Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
+Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
@item
Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.