[wwwdocs] Document changes in 3.4 for SPARC (rev2)
Dale Johannesen
dalej@apple.com
Mon Feb 2 23:10:00 GMT 2004
On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>>> + <li>A small union is passed or returned in a register; and</li>
>>> + <li>its size in bytes is lesser than 8.</li>
>>> "less"
>> Sure? Is "lesser than" not the standard reading for "<"?
>
> Relatively, yes.
>
> I also checked Google now, and that give 9,390,000 hits for "less than"
> versus 26,100 for "lesser than". (Not that this is the ultimate
> resource
> for the English language, but in cases like this it has proven useful
> to
> me. <g>)
"lesser than" reads very strangely to this native speaker. I prefer:
A small union is passed or returned in a register, and it is smaller
than 8 bytes.
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