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author | Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> | 2018-07-02 11:18:24 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> | 2018-07-02 11:18:24 +0100 |
commit | a05a5b64cf33d36d93a92fd03ae900e18dbe5572 (patch) | |
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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/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | bfd/doc/bfdint.texi | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | bfd/doc/bfdsumm.texi | 2 |
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 |