[patch] ld/*: Fix comment typos.

Kazu Hirata kazu@cs.umass.edu
Wed Oct 29 01:01:00 GMT 2003


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



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