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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: Fred Fish <fnf@specifixinc.com>,  binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Add a second 'pinfo' member to mips_opcode to extend number of available bits
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5w13spo.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050119224826.GD20005@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> (Thiemo Seufer's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:48:26 +0100")

Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> The word is "mnemonic". (It is called that way to prevent people
> from memorizing the proper spelling, I guess. :-)

Off-topic observation: it's spelled that way because it's derived from
"Mnemosyne" (Mνημοσυνη), the Greek goddess of memory.

zw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-19 21:21 Fred Fish
2005-01-19 22:48 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-01-19 23:01   ` Eric Christopher
2005-01-19 23:28   ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2005-01-20 11:52 ` Richard Sandiford
2005-01-20 17:59   ` Eric Christopher
2005-01-21 18:35     ` Fred Fish
2005-01-21 18:38       ` Eric Christopher

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