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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-10-15 05:34:02 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-10-15 05:34:02 +0000
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1997-10-15 06:56  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* Rules: Remove ruls to magically install <subdir>.h headers.
	Reported by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>.

	* glibcbug.in: Fix @gnu.ai.mit.edu -> @gnu.org.
	* version.c: Likewise.
	* catgets/gencat.c: Likewise.
	* db2/makedb.c: Likewise.
	* locale/programs/locale.c: Likewise.
	* locale/programs/localedef.c: Likewise.

	* libc.map: Move _IO_list_all back to GLIBC_2.0.

	* elf/rtld.c: Provide name of running program to _dl_new_object.

	* Rules: Implement shared-only-sources.
	* include/libc-symbols.h: Define default_symbol_version.
	* libio/Makefile (shared-only-sources): Define.
	* libio/freopen.c: Define as default version.
	* libio/iofopen.c: Likewise.
	* libio/genops.c: Define _IO_list_all here.
	* libio/stdfiles.c: Create linked list with public names.
	* libio/oldstdfiles.c: Likewise.

	* stdio-common/printf.c: Optimize.
	* stdio-common/scanf.c: Optimize.

	* sysdeps/generic/setfpucw.c: Include #include <...> not "...".

	* sysdeps/i386/i486/bits/string.h: Add optimized versions of index and
	rindex.

1997-10-14  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/arith.texi: Spelling fixes.
	* manual/conf.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/creature.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/filesys.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/intro.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/llio.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/math.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/message.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/pattern.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/search.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/signal.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/socket.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/startup.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/stdio.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/string.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/time.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/users.texi: Likewise.

1997-10-13 05:25  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/generic/sys/mman.h: Use __ptr_t instead of __caddr_t.
	* sysdeps/unix/bsd/osf/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sunos4/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/bsd/ultrix4/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/irix4/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/mach/hurd/mmap.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/mmap.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sunos4/mmap.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/mach/munmap.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/munmap.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/mach/mprotect.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/mprotect.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/msync.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/madvise.c: Likewise.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/madvise.c: Include stub version from generic
	subdir.

1997-10-12 20:27  Zack Weinberg  <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>

	* sysdeps/stub (all files):  Moved to sysdeps/generic.
	* all files using stub_warning: Include <stub-tag.h>.
	* include/stub-tag.h: New file, marks stubs in .d files.
	* Makerules: Look for stub-tag.h, not sysdeps/stub, when building
	<gnu/stubs.h>.
	* configure.in: Don't add sysdeps/stub to $sysnames.
	* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Look for generic headers, not stub
	headers.
	* sysdeps/generic/Makefile: Likewise.
	* manual/maint.texi: Delete references to sysdeps/stub.
	* INSTALL: Rebuilt.
	* configure: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/string.texi')
-rw-r--r--manual/string.texi26
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi
index d6c09b8df9..767a811c7e 100644
--- a/manual/string.texi
+++ b/manual/string.texi
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ The @code{strnlen} function returns the length of the null-terminated
 string @var{s} is this length is smaller than @var{maxlen}.  Otherwise
 it returns @var{maxlen}.  Therefore this function is equivalent to
 @code{(strlen (@var{s}) < n ? strlen (@var{s}) : @var{maxlen})} but it
-is more efficent.
+is more efficient.
 
 @smallexample
 char string[32] = "hello, world";
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ memcpy (new, old, arraysize * sizeof (struct foo));
 @comment GNU
 @deftypefun {void *} mempcpy (void *@var{to}, const void *@var{from}, size_t @var{size})
 The @code{mempcpy} function is nearly identical to the @code{memcpy}
-function.  It copies @var{size} byts from the object beginning at
+function.  It copies @var{size} bytes from the object beginning at
 @code{from} into the object pointed to by @var{to}.  But instead of
 returning the value of @code{to} it returns a pointer to the byte
 following the last written byte in the object beginning at @var{to}.
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ This function is like @code{strcmp}, except that differences in case are
 ignored.  How uppercase and lowercase character are related is
 determined by the currently selected locale.  In the standard @code{"C"}
 locale the characters @"A and @"a do not match but in a locale which
-regards this characters as parts of the alphabeth they do match.
+regards this characters as parts of the alphabet they do match.
 
 @code{strcasecmp} is derived from BSD.
 @end deftypefun
@@ -669,12 +669,12 @@ value follows the same conventions as found in the @code{strverscmp}
 function.  In fact, if @var{s1} and @var{s2} contain no digits,
 @code{strverscmp} behaves like @code{strcmp}.
 
-Basically, we compare strings normaly (character by character), until
+Basically, we compare strings normally (character by character), until
 we find a digit in each string - then we enter a special comparison
 mode, where each sequence of digit is taken as a whole.  If we reach the
 end of these two parts without noticing a difference, we return to the
 standard comparison mode.  There are two types of numeric parts:
-"integral" and "fractionnal" (these laters begins with a '0'). The types
+"integral" and "fractional" (those  begin with a '0'). The types
 of the numeric parts affect the way we sort them:
 
 @itemize @bullet
@@ -682,13 +682,13 @@ of the numeric parts affect the way we sort them:
 integral/integral: we compare values as you would expect.
 
 @item
-fractionnal/integral: the fractionnal part is less than the integral one.
+fractional/integral: the fractional part is less than the integral one.
 Again, no surprise.
 
 @item
-fractionnal/fractionnal: the things become a bit more complex.
-if the common prefix contains only leading zeroes, the longest part is less
-than the other one; else the comparison behaves normaly.
+fractional/fractional: the things become a bit more complex.
+If the common prefix contains only leading zeroes, the longest part is less
+than the other one; else the comparison behaves normally.
 @end itemize
 
 @smallexample
@@ -697,14 +697,14 @@ strverscmp ("no digit", "no digit")
 strverscmp ("item#99", "item#100")
     @result{} <0   /* @r{same prefix, but 99 < 100.} */
 strverscmp ("alpha1", "alpha001")
-    @result{} >0   /* @r{fractionnal part inferior to integral one.} */
+    @result{} >0   /* @r{fractional part inferior to integral one.} */
 strverscmp ("part1_f012", "part1_f01")
-    @result{} >0   /* @r{two fractionnal parts.} */
+    @result{} >0   /* @r{two fractional parts.} */
 strverscmp ("foo.009", "foo.0")
     @result{} <0   /* @r{idem, but with leading zeroes only.} */
 @end smallexample
 
-This function is especially usefull when dealing with filename sorting,
+This function is especially useful when dealing with filename sorting,
 because filenames frequently hold indices/version numbers.
 
 @code{strverscmp} is a GNU extension.
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ sort_strings_fast (char **array, int nstrings)
     @{
       size_t length = strlen (array[i]) * 2;
       char *transformed;
-      size_t transformed_lenght;
+      size_t transformed_length;
 
       temp_array[i].input = array[i];