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Re: [patch] ld/*: Fix comment typos.
- From: Kazu Hirata <kazu at cs dot umass dot edu>
- To: bje at wasabisystems dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:01:18 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [patch] ld/*: Fix comment typos.
- References: <87y8v6j5b3.fsf@wasabisystems.com>
Hi Ben,
> You probably should not list ChangeLog changes in ChangeLogs. ;-)
Right. :-)
> Also, if you pay close attention to the GNU coding standards, trivial
> documentation changes should probably not be documented either. It
> almost gets to the point where the ChangeLog entries are most
> intrusive than the typos themselves ;-) Brevity in ChangeLogs is a
> useful characteristic when scanning them.
OK. I confirmed the part of the GNU coding standards that you are
referring to.
> Out of interest, Kazu, do you record the typos that people make and
> automatically search for them from time to time?
No. I use the following command to look for potentially misspelled
words.
cat *.[chy] | aspell -l | grep -v ^..$ | grep -v ^...$ | sort | uniq
Kazu Hirata