[PATCH] doc/extend.texi (Object Size Checking): Improve grammar.
Jonathan Wakely
jwakely@redhat.com
Thu Apr 27 19:17:00 GMT 2017
The main change is s/overflown/overflowed/ but I made a couple of
other minor grammatical fixes.
Committed to trunk as obvious.
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commit 6c664e18a926ea60d253001e78fe9e6828416884
Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Apr 27 19:42:52 2017 +0100
* doc/extend.texi (Object Size Checking): Improve grammar.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
index f7cbe44..1255995 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -10209,14 +10209,14 @@ assert (__builtin_object_size (q, 1) == sizeof (var.b));
There are built-in functions added for many common string operation
functions, e.g., for @code{memcpy} @code{__builtin___memcpy_chk}
built-in is provided. This built-in has an additional last argument,
-which is the number of bytes remaining in object the @var{dest}
+which is the number of bytes remaining in the object the @var{dest}
argument points to or @code{(size_t) -1} if the size is not known.
The built-in functions are optimized into the normal string functions
like @code{memcpy} if the last argument is @code{(size_t) -1} or if
it is known at compile time that the destination object will not
-be overflown. If the compiler can determine at compile time the
-object will be always overflown, it issues a warning.
+be overflowed. If the compiler can determine at compile time that the
+object will always be overflowed, it issues a warning.
The intended use can be e.g.@:
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