Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND(REBASED)] Fix trivial "endianness bugs"

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 01.04.2011 22:27, schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 03:44:02PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Replace endianess -> endianness.
>
> Given it concerns code and not comments, I am reluctant for this kind of
> patches unless we have a very good reason.
>
> Do you have some pointers about "endianness" being the correct wording?
> It seems both are accepted, even if in the last years people seems to
> use more often "endianness" than "endianess".
>
> Maybe a native speaker can help us here.
>

Hello Aurelien,

I'm not a native speaker, but I like having well written examples
which help me avoiding mistakes (some of the wrong spellings
were written by me) and improving my knowledge of English.
Therefore I also modified code.
It was a formal replace operation using perl -pi -e,
so this should be rather safe.

Here are some links (other than google which also refers to
endianness):

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianess (Falschschreibung = wrong spelling)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianess (redirected to Endianness)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianess (redirected to Endianness)
This article uses both variants (which obviously is a bug).

Oxford dictionary (like others) does not know any endianness,
but refers to indianness which is a similar composition of
a word ending with "n" followed by "ness".

Regards,
Stefan