-Wformat-diag: floating-point or floating point?

[Bill Schmidt]

On 5/21/19 11:47 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> The GCC coding style says to use "floating-point" as an adjective
> rather than "floating point."Â  After enhancing the -Wformat-diag
> checker to detect this I found a bunch of uses of the latter, such
> as in:
>
> Â  gcc/c/c-decl.c:10944
> Â  gcc/c/c-parser.c:9423, 9446, 9450, etc.
> Â  gcc/convert.c:418, 422
> Â  gcc/cp/call.c:5070
> Â  gcc/cp/cvt.c:886
>
> Before I fix them all and adjust the tests, I want to make sure
> we really want to follow this rule.  The C standard uses both
> interchangeably.  With just one exception, the C++ standard uses
> the hyphenated form.
The hyphenated form is correct English, so I certainly prefer it. :-)

Bill
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>