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authorThomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>2018-07-02 11:18:24 +0100
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Fix use of "command line X" in binutils doc
Binutils documentation uses a mix of spelling for the compound word "command-line X". According to [1]: "Sometimes compound words are written separately (nail polish), sometimes with a hyphen (short-sighted) and sometimes as one word (eyelashes). Often new compounds are written as two separate words and, as they become more familiar, they are either connected with a hyphen (-) or made into one word." I think command-line X is common enough in our industry that the two workds command and line should be connected. Since command-line is more common than commandline, I propose to update binutils documentation to consistently use "command-line" when this is used as an adjective to a noun (eg. command-line argument, command-line switch, command-line option and command-line flag). I've left occurences of "the command line" as is. I've also left gdb, sim and readline alone and have only touched public documentation (texi and NEWS files). [1] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/word-formation/compounds 2018-07-02 Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> bfd/ * doc/bfdint.texi: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word. * doc/bfdsumm.texi: Likewise. binutils/ * NEWS: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word. * doc/binutils.texi: Likewise and fix trailing whitespace on same line. gas/ * NEWS: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word. * doc/as.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-aarch64.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-alpha.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-arc.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-arm.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-avr.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-bfin.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-cris.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-epiphany.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-i386.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-ia64.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-lm32.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-m32r.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-m68k.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-mips.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-mmix.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-msp430.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-mt.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-nios2.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-ppc.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-pru.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-rl78.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-rx.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-tic6x.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-v850.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-vax.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-visium.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-xstormy16.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-xtensa.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-z80.texi: Likewise. * doc/c-z8k.texi: Likewise. * doc/internals.texi: Likewise. gprof/ * gprof.texi: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word. ld/ * NEWS: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word. * ld.texinfo: Likewise. * ldint.texinfo: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--bfd/doc/bfdint.texi2
-rw-r--r--bfd/doc/bfdsumm.texi2
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 9cfd1c9..a4ee933 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2018-07-02 Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>
+
+ * doc/bfdint.texi: Use command-line consistently when used in a
+ compount word.
+ * doc/bfdsumm.texi: Likewise.
+
2018-06-29 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
* elfxx-mips.c (allocate_dynrelocs): Remove extraneous symbol
diff --git a/bfd/doc/bfdint.texi b/bfd/doc/bfdint.texi
index 4d36381..91479f9 100644
--- a/bfd/doc/bfdint.texi
+++ b/bfd/doc/bfdint.texi
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ The target vector starts with a set of constants.
@table @samp
@item name
The name of the target vector. This is an arbitrary string. This is
-how the target vector is named in command line options for tools which
+how the target vector is named in command-line options for tools which
use BFD, such as the @samp{--oformat} linker option.
@item flavour
diff --git a/bfd/doc/bfdsumm.texi b/bfd/doc/bfdsumm.texi
index 848c06e..51ffbb7 100644
--- a/bfd/doc/bfdsumm.texi
+++ b/bfd/doc/bfdsumm.texi
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ output file (no matter its format) will retain symbols pointing to
functions and to global, static, and common variables. Some symbol
information is not worth retaining; in @code{a.out}, type information is
stored in the symbol table as long symbol names. This information would
-be useless to most COFF debuggers; the linker has command line switches
+be useless to most COFF debuggers; the linker has command-line switches
to allow users to throw it away.
There is one word of type information within the symbol, so if the