From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31166 invoked by alias); 1 May 2018 04:12:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 31101 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2018 04:12:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=English, compound, H*r:0700 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 May 2018 04:12:46 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-mbx-03.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.90.203]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:256) id 1fDMei-0001L0-9x from Sandra_Loosemore@mentor.com ; Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:12:44 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-mbx-03.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.90.203) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1320.4; Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:12:41 -0700 Subject: Re: "position independent" vs "position-independent" in documentation To: Jonathan Wakely , References: <20180430115654.GK20930@redhat.com> From: Sandra Loosemore Message-ID: <646c8ca5-73bb-7566-abf3-a03c47a02140@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 04:12:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180430115654.GK20930@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-orw-mbx-03.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.90.203) To svr-orw-mbx-03.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.90.203) X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 On 04/30/2018 05:56 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > Should we standardize on "position-independent" and add it to > https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#Spelling ? The same generic English usage rules apply here as to other compound phrases; hyphenate when immediately before a noun, don't hyphenate in other contexts. So "the compiler generates position-independent code" and "the compiler generates code that is position independent" are both correct. However, I don't think it's common to use "position independent" (hyphenated or not) except as a modifier for "code", so you could add "position-independent code" (rather than just "position-independent") to the glossary. -Sandra