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[PATCH v2] manual: fix spelling typos
I've bracketed the changes to make it easier to pick out.
enlengthen -> extend
enlengthened -> extended
excep[e]tions -> exceptions
exten[da]ble -> exten[si]ble
implement[o]r -> implement[e]r
licen[c]e -> licen[s]e
optimzed -> optim[i]zed
overriden -> overrid[d]en
param[a]ter -> param[e]ter
signal[l]ed -> signaled
signal[l]ing -> signaling
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2012-10-27 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* manual/arith.texi: Fix spelling typos.
* manual/contrib.texi: Likewise.
* manual/crypt.texi: Likewise.
* manual/filesys.texi: Likewise.
* manual/llio.texi: Likewise.
* manual/locale.texi: Likewise.
* manual/message.texi: Likewise.
* manual/nss.texi: Likewise.
* manual/socket.texi: Likewise.
* manual/stdio.texi: Likewise.
* manual/string.texi: Likewise.
* manual/sysinfo.texi: Likewise.
---
v2
- drop texinfo change
- fix ChangeLog paths
manual/arith.texi | 10 +++++-----
manual/contrib.texi | 2 +-
manual/crypt.texi | 2 +-
manual/filesys.texi | 2 +-
manual/llio.texi | 4 ++--
manual/locale.texi | 2 +-
manual/message.texi | 14 +++++++-------
manual/nss.texi | 2 +-
manual/socket.texi | 2 +-
manual/stdio.texi | 2 +-
manual/string.texi | 4 ++--
manual/sysinfo.texi | 2 +-
12 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi
index 3f4e56a..6f72b08 100644
--- a/manual/arith.texi
+++ b/manual/arith.texi
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ operation continues with an imprecise small value, or zero if the
destination precision cannot hold the small exact result.
@item Inexact
-This exception is signalled if a rounded result is not exact (such as
+This exception is signaled if a rounded result is not exact (such as
when calculating the square root of two) or a result overflows without
an overflow trap.
@end table
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ may be larger or smaller than the range representable by their return
type. These are known as @dfn{domain errors}, @dfn{overflows}, and
@dfn{underflows}, respectively. Math functions do several things when
one of these errors occurs. In this manual we will refer to the
-complete response as @dfn{signalling} a domain error, overflow, or
+complete response as @dfn{signaling} a domain error, overflow, or
underflow.
When a math function suffers a domain error, it raises the invalid
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ occur, you can use the following two functions.
@comment GNU
@deftypefun int feenableexcept (int @var{excepts})
This functions enables traps for each of the exceptions as indicated by
-the parameter @var{except}. The individual excepetions are described in
+the parameter @var{except}. The individual exceptions are described in
@ref{Status bit operations}. Only the specified exceptions are
enabled, the status of the other exceptions is not changed.
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ operation was successful, @code{-1} otherwise.
@comment GNU
@deftypefun int fedisableexcept (int @var{excepts})
This functions disables traps for each of the exceptions as indicated by
-the parameter @var{except}. The individual excepetions are described in
+the parameter @var{except}. The individual exceptions are described in
@ref{Status bit operations}. Only the specified exceptions are
disabled, the status of the other exceptions is not changed.
@@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ sign (although not all implementations support it) and this is one of
the few operations that can tell the difference.
@code{copysign} never raises an exception.
-@c except signalling NaNs
+@c except signaling NaNs
This function is defined in @w{IEC 559} (and the appendix with
recommended functions in @w{IEEE 754}/@w{IEEE 854}).
diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi
index 3052fc1..abc39cf 100644
--- a/manual/contrib.texi
+++ b/manual/contrib.texi
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ committee.
Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd.
@item
-Liubov Dmitrieva for optimzed string and math functions on x86-64 and
+Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and
x86.
@item
diff --git a/manual/crypt.texi b/manual/crypt.texi
index ef90590..4d55ce9 100644
--- a/manual/crypt.texi
+++ b/manual/crypt.texi
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ to provide a definitive survey of the laws affecting cryptography.
Instead, this section warns you of some of the known trouble spots; this
may help you when you try to find out what the laws of your country are.
-Some countries require that you have a licence to use, possess, or import
+Some countries require that you have a license to use, possess, or import
cryptography. These countries are believed to include Byelorussia,
Burma, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, and Saudi
Arabia.
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi
index 7003f9c..09ef051 100644
--- a/manual/filesys.texi
+++ b/manual/filesys.texi
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ of the following categories. This could be special files, sockets etc.
The item is a directory.
@item FTW_NS
The @code{stat} call failed and so the information pointed to by the
-second paramater is invalid.
+second parameter is invalid.
@item FTW_DNR
The item is a directory which cannot be read.
@item FTW_SL
diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi
index acafed3..4e92e44 100644
--- a/manual/llio.texi
+++ b/manual/llio.texi
@@ -2105,7 +2105,7 @@ by @var{list}. The operation to be performed is determined by the
@code{aio_lio_opcode} member in each element of @var{list}. If this
field is @code{LIO_READ} a read operation is enqueued, similar to a call
of @code{aio_read} for this element of the array (except that the way
-the termination is signalled is different, as we will see below). If
+the termination is signaled is different, as we will see below). If
the @code{aio_lio_opcode} member is @code{LIO_WRITE} a write operation
is enqueued. Otherwise the @code{aio_lio_opcode} must be @code{LIO_NOP}
in which case this element of @var{list} is simply ignored. This
@@ -2389,7 +2389,7 @@ None of the requests from the @var{list} completed in the time specified
by @var{timeout}.
@item EINTR
A signal interrupted the @code{aio_suspend} function. This signal might
-also be sent by the AIO implementation while signalling the termination
+also be sent by the AIO implementation while signaling the termination
of one of the requests.
@item ENOSYS
The @code{aio_suspend} function is not implemented.
diff --git a/manual/locale.texi b/manual/locale.texi
index 2f10fcd..3dca89f 100644
--- a/manual/locale.texi
+++ b/manual/locale.texi
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ as far as the system follows the Unix standards.
Together with the @code{setlocale} function the @w{ISO C} people
invented the @code{localeconv} function. It is a masterpiece of poor
-design. It is expensive to use, not extendable, and not generally
+design. It is expensive to use, not extensible, and not generally
usable as it provides access to only @code{LC_MONETARY} and
@code{LC_NUMERIC} related information. Nevertheless, if it is
applicable to a given situation it should be used since it is very
diff --git a/manual/message.texi b/manual/message.texi
index f65123c..bb28717 100644
--- a/manual/message.texi
+++ b/manual/message.texi
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ industry decisions and therefore not necessarily based on reasonable
decisions.
As mentioned above the message catalog handling provides easy
-extendibility by using external data files which contain the message
+extendability by using external data files which contain the message
translations. I.e., these files contain for each of the messages used
in the program a translation for the appropriate language. So the tasks
of the message handling functions are
@@ -1485,12 +1485,12 @@ family. But in two places the string passed into the function would be
@code{Open}. The translations might not be the same and therefore we
are in the dilemma described above.
-One solution to this problem is to artificially enlengthen the strings
+One solution to this problem is to artificially extend the strings
to make them unambiguous. But what would the program do if no
-translation is available? The enlengthened string is not what should be
+translation is available? The extended string is not what should be
printed. So we should use a little bit modified version of the functions.
-To enlengthen the strings a uniform method should be used. E.g., in the
+To extend the strings a uniform method should be used. E.g., in the
example above the strings could be chosen as
@smallexample
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ for the Menu entries and therefore contains a @code{|} character. We
simply search for the last occurrence of this character and return a
pointer to the character following it. That's it!
-If one now consistently uses the enlengthened string form and replaces
+If one now consistently uses the extended string form and replaces
the @code{gettext} calls with calls to @code{sgettext} (this is normally
limited to very few places in the GUI implementation) then it is
possible to produce a program which can be internationalized.
@@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ with the second part which is:
@item
There is no way the C library can contain a version which can work
everywhere. The problem is the selection of the character to separate
-the prefix from the actual string in the enlenghtened string. The
+the prefix from the actual string in the extended string. The
examples above used @code{|} which is a quite good choice because it
resembles a notation frequently used in this context and it also is a
character not often used in message strings.
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ why the @file{iso646.h} file exists in @w{ISO C} programming environments).
@end itemize
There is only one more comment to make left. The wrapper function above
-require that the translations strings are not enlengthened themselves.
+require that the translations strings are not extended themselves.
This is only logical. There is no need to disambiguate the strings
(since they are never used as keys for a search) and one also saves
quite some memory and disk space by doing this.
diff --git a/manual/nss.texi b/manual/nss.texi
index 29fa4cc..57bd35a 100644
--- a/manual/nss.texi
+++ b/manual/nss.texi
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ here only important to remember that adding another database is
independent from adding another service because a service need not
support all databases or lookup functions.
-A designer/implementor of a new service is therefore free to choose the
+A designer/implementer of a new service is therefore free to choose the
databases s/he is interested in and leave the rest for later (or
completely aside).
diff --git a/manual/socket.texi b/manual/socket.texi
index b12c591..89cc1b6 100644
--- a/manual/socket.texi
+++ b/manual/socket.texi
@@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ parameters.
A pointer to the buffer, in which the result is stored, is available in
@code{*@var{result}} after the function call successfully returned. If
an error occurs or if no entry is found, the pointer @code{*@var{result}}
-is a null pointer. Success is signalled by a zero return value. If the
+is a null pointer. Success is signaled by a zero return value. If the
function failed the return value is an error number. In addition to the
errors defined for @code{gethostbyname} it can also be @code{ERANGE}.
In this case the call should be repeated with a larger buffer.
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi
index be769a5..a6d3a2c 100644
--- a/manual/stdio.texi
+++ b/manual/stdio.texi
@@ -5127,7 +5127,7 @@ Display the message in standard error.
Display the message on the system console.
@end vtable
-The erroneous piece of the system can be signalled by exactly one of the
+The erroneous piece of the system can be signaled by exactly one of the
following values which also is bitwise ORed with the
@var{classification} parameter to @code{fmtmsg}:
diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi
index 2844bc6..b697360 100644
--- a/manual/string.texi
+++ b/manual/string.texi
@@ -2145,7 +2145,7 @@ The GNU version of the @code{basename} function returns the last
component of the path in @var{filename}. This function is the preferred
usage, since it does not modify the argument, @var{filename}, and
respects trailing slashes. The prototype for @code{basename} can be
-found in @file{string.h}. Note, this function is overriden by the XPG
+found in @file{string.h}. Note, this function is overridden by the XPG
version, if @file{libgen.h} is included.
Example of using GNU @code{basename}:
@@ -2291,7 +2291,7 @@ that described in @xref{Cryptographic Functions}.
To store or transfer binary data in environments which only support text
one has to encode the binary data by mapping the input bytes to
-characters in the range allowed for storing or transfering. SVID
+characters in the range allowed for storing or transferring. SVID
systems (and nowadays XPG compliant systems) provide minimal support for
this task.
diff --git a/manual/sysinfo.texi b/manual/sysinfo.texi
index 1733bc3..389c055 100644
--- a/manual/sysinfo.texi
+++ b/manual/sysinfo.texi
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ associated data type are declared in the header file
As a bonus, @code{uname} also gives some information identifying the
particular system your program is running on. This is the same information
-which you can get with functions targetted to this purpose described in
+which you can get with functions targeted to this purpose described in
@ref{Host Identification}.
--
1.7.12