From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4618C433EF for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2022 14:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235189AbiBIOpW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:45:22 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38834 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229732AbiBIOpT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:45:19 -0500 Received: from eu-smtp-delivery-151.mimecast.com (eu-smtp-delivery-151.mimecast.com [185.58.85.151]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B94CC06157B for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2022 06:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from AcuMS.aculab.com (156.67.243.121 [156.67.243.121]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384) id uk-mta-242-qivUEKu-Nx-csT-ffmbl5A-1; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:45:19 +0000 X-MC-Unique: qivUEKu-Nx-csT-ffmbl5A-1 Received: from AcuMS.Aculab.com (fd9f:af1c:a25b:0:994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65) by AcuMS.aculab.com (fd9f:af1c:a25b:0:994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1497.28; Wed, 9 Feb 2022 14:45:18 +0000 Received: from AcuMS.Aculab.com ([fe80::994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65]) by AcuMS.aculab.com ([fe80::994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65%12]) with mapi id 15.00.1497.028; Wed, 9 Feb 2022 14:45:18 +0000 From: David Laight To: 'David T-G' , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" CC: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "bpf@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3 Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3 Thread-Index: AQHYHbrjaaGrMTB3M0ipeBb59E9eX6yLST5A Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 14:45:18 +0000 Message-ID: <6879dfb9fd594925b348fbbbf0051670@AcuMS.aculab.com> References: <20220208152148.48534-1-pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> <20220209134139.GA4455@justpickone.org> In-Reply-To: <20220209134139.GA4455@justpickone.org> Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.202.205.107] MIME-Version: 1.0 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=C51A453 smtp.mailfrom=david.laight@aculab.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: aculab.com Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David T-G > Sent: 09 February 2022 13:42 > > ...and then Wols Lists said... > % > % On 08/02/2022 15:21, Paul Menzel wrote: > ... > % > % As commented elsewhere, for the sake of us ENGLISH speakers, > % *PLEASE* make that $(hash). A pound sign is £. > > Or, even better, $(octothorpe) since that's merely a symbol rather than a > food product or a result of an algorithm on data. You might even hope > that we hash this out eventually ... I was more worried that people might think we should smoke the hash. The # symbol called 'hash' in the UK. Can't remember why - but it is used to mean 'number'. 'octothorpe' is some brain-damaged name and should be shot^Werased on sight. The whole UK v US confusion about what a 'pound' sign looks like almost certainly led to UK ascii using the £ glyph for 0x23. I can imaging a phone call where a US person said '0x23 is the pound sign'. I remember problems with ascii peripherals on a ebcdic mainframe where £ $ # and \ had to get squeezed into the three available codes. Not only was in semi-random what a line printer might print, we had 'page mode' terminals where the input and output translation tables didn't always match. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)