From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm-dis: Fix spelling in comments (iff -> if)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:22:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8DB4DA.5090702@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334685493-6867-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de>
Am 17.04.2012 19:58, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> The spelling 'iff' is sometimes used for 'if and only if'.
> Even if that meaning could be applied here, it is not used
> consistently. It is also quite unusual to use 'if and only if'
> in technical documentation. Therefore a simple 'if' should be
> preferred here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> ---
> arm-dis.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Aren't the *-dis.c files imported from binutils? In that case I'd
suggest to stay in sync with how they write/wrote it.
(Would spelling fixes in comments be subject to the GPLv3?)
Andreas
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-17 17:58 [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] arm-dis: Fix spelling in comments (iff -> if) Stefan Weil
2012-04-17 18:22 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2012-04-17 19:15 ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2012-04-20 12:20 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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