GCC 3.1 Released

Nicola Pero nicola@brainstorm.co.uk
Wed May 22 04:45:00 GMT 2002


> > > 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>



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