From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12440 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2018 20:56:49 -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 12431 invoked by uid 89); 1 Apr 2018 20:56:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*c:alternative, online, Our, our X-HELO: mx.coeval.ca Received: from mx.coeval.ca (HELO mx.coeval.ca) (184.75.211.21) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 20:56:46 +0000 Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com (mail-oi0-f51.google.com [209.85.218.51]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.coeval.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 99700436054 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f51.google.com with SMTP id u84-v6so11460500oie.10 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCCM7dZlG+4u92GAO/EBrH+DbagM16AFlS9hJknIFGNnfwm/ycM z9KdQHAEyo1r6ximmg3vdmLb05wiezkr9KTwUCw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx49F53QPT6ored8r/jPXbdXbgyDkzoyg//frAD21GsQ9f+JSgK3PDolKG8vscvC6JtveXeeUjBTQIbdJ5uY6n5o= X-Received: by 2002:aca:39c2:: with SMTP id g185-v6mr3597537oia.355.1522616204203; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Reply-To: joel@rtems.org From: Joel Sherrill Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 20:56:00 -0000 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: "file name" vs "filename" To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Sandra Loosemore , "Joseph S. Myers" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 3:16 PM Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > And now to the most important question of all. ;-) Should we use > "file name" or "filename" when referring to the name of a file? > > Our docs currently are about even and I think it would be good to > settle on one? > > % grep "filename" $GCC/gcc/doc/*.texi | wc -l > 92 > % grep "file name" $GCC/gcc/doc/*.texi | wc -l > 103 > > (Once we have consensus, I'll add that to codingconventions.html > and start by making the web pages consistent.) Searching and looking at online dictionaries, it looks like filename is the currently preferred form. --joel > > Gerald >