From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>
Cc: Honggyu Kim <hong.gyu.kim@lge.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/generic.texi: Fix typo
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54039D82.9070208@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408312128050.5181@tuna.site>
On 8/31/2014 4:49 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Mike Stump wrote:
>> These errors are on purpose.
Surprising that someone would not get this obvious clever joke.
>>
>>> -There are many places in which this document is incomplet and incorrekt.
>>> +There are many places in which this document is incomplete or incorrect.
>
> Since this now came up for the second time this year, I went ahead
> and applied the patch below.
Seems a shame that anyone should need an explanation, but oh well :-)
P.S. my favorite instance of this kind of documentation is an early
IBM Fortran manual, which says that you should put exactly the character
you want to see come out on the printer [in some context], "e.g. an I
for an I and a 2 for a 2." :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-31 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 6:03 Honggyu Kim
2014-08-29 22:39 ` Mike Stump
2014-08-31 20:50 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2014-08-31 22:11 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2014-09-01 0:37 ` Honggyu Kim
2014-09-01 0:40 ` Honggyu Kim
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