[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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