17503: fix various typos and spelling mistakes in source code comments

16 files changed, 36 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/Src/builtin.c b/Src/builtin.c
index 5297f5960..f31c38925 100644
--- a/Src/builtin.c
+++ b/Src/builtin.c
@@ -477,8 +477,8 @@ bin_set(char *nam, char **args, char *ops, int func)
 	hadplus = 0, hadend = 0, sort = 0;
     char **x;
 
-    /* Obsolecent sh compatibility: set - is the same as set +xv *
-     * and set - args is the same as set +xv -- args             */
+    /* Obsolescent sh compatibility: set - is the same as set +xv *
+     * and set - args is the same as set +xv -- args              */
     if (*args && **args == '-' && !args[0][1]) {
 	dosetopt(VERBOSE, 0, 0);
 	dosetopt(XTRACE, 0, 0);
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ static int chasinglinks;
 /* The main pwd changing function.  The real work is done by other     *
  * functions.  cd_get_dest() does the initial argument processing;     *
  * cd_do_chdir() actually changes directory, if possible; cd_new_pwd() *
- * does the ancilliary processing associated with actually changing    *
+ * does the ancillary processing associated with actually changing    *
  * directory.                                                          */
 
 /**/
@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ fcgetcomm(char *s)
     return cmd;
 }
 
-/* Perform old=new substituions.  Uses the asgment structure from zsh.h, *
+/* Perform old=new substitutions.  Uses the asgment structure from zsh.h, *
  * which is essentially a linked list of string,replacement pairs.       */
 
 /**/
@@ -1643,7 +1643,7 @@ typeset_single(char *cname, char *pname, Param pm, int func,
 	 * If the original parameter was special and we're creating
 	 * a new one, we need to keep it special.
 	 *
-	 * The -h (hide) flags prevents an existing special being made
+	 * The -h (hide) flag prevents an existing special being made
 	 * local.  It can be applied either to the special or in the
 	 * typeset/local statement for the local variable.
 	 */
@@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@ bin_typeset(char *name, char **argv, char *ops, int func)
 	    off |= bit;
     roff = off;
 
-    /* Sanity checks on the options.  Remove conficting options. */
+    /* Sanity checks on the options.  Remove conflicting options. */
     if (on & PM_FFLOAT) {
 	off |= PM_RIGHT_B | PM_LEFT | PM_RIGHT_Z | PM_UPPER | PM_ARRAY |
 	    PM_HASHED | PM_INTEGER | PM_EFLOAT;
diff --git a/Src/compat.c b/Src/compat.c
index 126d4bd4a..2999e63e4 100644
--- a/Src/compat.c
+++ b/Src/compat.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * compat.c - compatibiltiy routines for the deprived
+ * compat.c - compatibility routines for the deprived
  *
  * This file is part of zsh, the Z shell.
  *
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ zgetcwd(void)
 }
 
 /* chdir with arbitrary long pathname.  Returns 0 on success, 0 on normal *
- * faliliure and -2 when chdir failed and the current directory is lost.  */
+ * failure and -2 when chdir failed and the current directory is lost.  */
 
 /**/
 mod_export int
diff --git a/Src/exec.c b/Src/exec.c
index 494c1c260..9033e146d 100644
--- a/Src/exec.c
+++ b/Src/exec.c
@@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ execcmd(Estate state, int input, int output, int how, int last1)
 		execute((Cmdnam) hn, cflags & BINF_DASH);
 	    } else {		/* ( ... ) */
 		DPUTS(varspc,
-		      "BUG: assigment before complex command");
+		      "BUG: assignment before complex command");
 		list_pipe = 0;
 		if (subsh_close >= 0)
 		    zclose(subsh_close);
diff --git a/Src/glob.c b/Src/glob.c
index 8caa70ba5..ee23aa669 100644
--- a/Src/glob.c
+++ b/Src/glob.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ insert(char *s, int checked)
 
     while (!inserts || (news = dupstring(*inserts++))) {
 	if (colonmod) {
-	    /* Handle the remainder of the qualifer:  e.g. (:r:s/foo/bar/). */
+	    /* Handle the remainder of the qualifier:  e.g. (:r:s/foo/bar/). */
 	    s = colonmod;
 	    modify(&news, &s);
 	}
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ parsecomplist(char *instr)
 	/* parse single path component */
 	if (!(p1 = patcompile(instr, compflags|PAT_FILET, &instr)))
 	    return NULL;
-	/* then do the remaining path compoents */
+	/* then do the remaining path components */
 	if (*instr == '/' || !*instr) {
 	    int ef = *instr == '/';
 
diff --git a/Src/hashtable.c b/Src/hashtable.c
index 332f9479a..01abbf380 100644
--- a/Src/hashtable.c
+++ b/Src/hashtable.c
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ addhashnode(HashTable ht, char *nam, void *nodeptr)
 	ht->freenode(oldnode);
 }
 
-/* Add a node to a hash table, returning the old node on replacment. */
+/* Add a node to a hash table, returning the old node on replacement. */
 
 /**/
 HashNode
diff --git a/Src/init.c b/Src/init.c
index ac0885f10..1d2d8828f 100644
--- a/Src/init.c
+++ b/Src/init.c
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ setupvals(void)
     createshfunctable();    /* create hash table for shell functions   */
     createbuiltintable();   /* create hash table for builtin commands  */
     createnameddirtable();  /* create hash table for named directories */
-    createparamtable();     /* create paramater hash table             */
+    createparamtable();     /* create parameter hash table             */
 
     condtab = NULL;
     wrappers = NULL;
diff --git a/Src/lex.c b/Src/lex.c
index cb76bc7ab..7c7d264f2 100644
--- a/Src/lex.c
+++ b/Src/lex.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ mod_export int parend;
 /**/
 mod_export int nocomments;
 
-/* text of puctuation tokens */
+/* text of punctuation tokens */
 
 /**/
 mod_export char *tokstrings[WHILE + 1] = {
diff --git a/Src/math.c b/Src/math.c
index 344670d6e..f970f3669 100644
--- a/Src/math.c
+++ b/Src/math.c
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ op(int what)
 		   (a.type != MN_UNSET || what != EQ)) {
 	    /*
 	     * Different types, so coerce to float.
-	     * It may happen during an assigment that the LHS
+	     * It may happen during an assignment that the LHS
 	     * variable is actually an integer, but there's still
 	     * no harm in doing the arithmetic in floating point;
 	     * the assignment will do the correct conversion.
diff --git a/Src/mem.c b/Src/mem.c
index 9f88dddaa..67b4624d9 100644
--- a/Src/mem.c
+++ b/Src/mem.c
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static char *m_high, *m_low;
    size of the small blocks held in a memory block, given a pointer to the
    header of it.  M_SBLEN() gives the size of a memory block that can hold
    an array of small blocks, given the size of these small blocks.  M_BSLEN()
-   caculates the size of the small blocks held in a memory block, given the
+   calculates the size of the small blocks held in a memory block, given the
    length of that block (including the header of the memory block.  M_NSMALL
    is the number of possible block sizes that small blocks should be used
    for. */
@@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ bin_mem(char *name, char **argv, char *ops, int func)
 	printf("\nThe list of memory blocks. For each block the following\n");
 	printf("information is shown:\n\n");
 	printf("num\tthe number of this block\n");
-	printf("tnum\tlike num but counted separatedly for used and free\n");
+	printf("tnum\tlike num but counted separately for used and free\n");
 	printf("\tblocks\n");
 	printf("addr\tthe address of this block\n");
 	printf("len\tthe length of the block\n");
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ bin_mem(char *name, char **argv, char *ops, int func)
 	printf("\t  free\tthis block is free\n");
 	printf("\t  small\tthis block is used for an array of small blocks\n");
 	printf("cum\tthe accumulated sizes of the blocks, counted\n");
-	printf("\tseparatedly for used and free blocks\n");
+	printf("\tseparately for used and free blocks\n");
 	printf("\nFor blocks holding small blocks the number of free\n");
 	printf("blocks, the number of used blocks and the size of the\n");
 	printf("blocks is shown. For otherwise used blocks the first few\n");
diff --git a/Src/module.c b/Src/module.c
index f8b3f2758..9cecac826 100644
--- a/Src/module.c
+++ b/Src/module.c
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ add_dep(const char *name, char *from)
      * If we were passed an alias, we must resolve it to a final
      * module name (and maybe add the corresponding struct), since otherwise
      * we would need to check all modules to see if they happen
-     * to be aliased to the same thing to implement depencies properly.
+     * to be aliased to the same thing to implement dependencies properly.
      *
      * This should mean that an attempt to add an alias which would
      * have the same name as a module which has dependencies is correctly
diff --git a/Src/params.c b/Src/params.c
index 4d7fcdc4e..72b0f2991 100644
--- a/Src/params.c
+++ b/Src/params.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ IPDEF9F("@", &pparams, NULL, PM_ARRAY|PM_SPECIAL|PM_DONTIMPORT|PM_READONLY),
 {NULL, NULL},
 #define IPDEF10(A,B,C) {NULL,A,PM_ARRAY|PM_SPECIAL,BR(NULL),SFN(C),GFN(B),stdunsetfn,10,NULL,NULL,NULL,0}
 
-/* The following parameters are not avaible in sh/ksh compatibility *
+/* The following parameters are not available in sh/ksh compatibility *
  * mode. All of these have sh compatible equivalents.                */
 IPDEF1("ARGC", poundgetfn, nullintsetfn, PM_READONLY),
 IPDEF2("HISTCHARS", histcharsgetfn, histcharssetfn, PM_DONTIMPORT),
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ createparam(char *name, int flags)
 			 paramtab->getnode(paramtab, name));
 
 	DPUTS(oldpm && oldpm->level > locallevel,
-	      "BUG:  old local parameter not deleteed");
+	      "BUG: old local parameter not deleted");
 	if (oldpm && (oldpm->level == locallevel || !(flags & PM_LOCAL))) {
 	    if (!(oldpm->flags & PM_UNSET) || (oldpm->flags & PM_SPECIAL)) {
 		oldpm->flags &= ~PM_UNSET;
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ getindex(char **pptr, Value v, int dq)
 
     *s++ = '[';
     s = parse_subscript(s, dq);	/* Error handled after untokenizing */
-    /* Now we untokenize everthing except INULL() markers so we can check *
+    /* Now we untokenize everything except INULL() markers so we can check *
      * for the '*' and '@' special subscripts.  The INULL()s are removed  *
      * in getarg() after we know whether we're doing reverse indexing.    */
     for (tbrack = *pptr + 1; *tbrack && tbrack != s; tbrack++) {
@@ -2269,7 +2269,7 @@ unsetparam_pm(Param pm, int altflag, int exp)
 	    /*
 	     * Re-export the old value which we removed in typeset_single().
 	     * I don't think we need to test for ALL_EXPORT here, since if
-	     * it was used to export the parameter originally the parmeter
+	     * it was used to export the parameter originally the parameter
 	     * should still have the PM_EXPORTED flag.
 	     */
 	    export_param(oldpm);
diff --git a/Src/parse.c b/Src/parse.c
index e44129608..4b105d868 100644
--- a/Src/parse.c
+++ b/Src/parse.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ struct heredocs *hdocs;
  *
  *   WC_LIST
  *     - data contains type (sync, ...)
- *     - follwed by code for this list
+ *     - followed by code for this list
  *     - if not (type & Z_END), followed by next WC_LIST
  *
  *   WC_SUBLIST
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ struct heredocs *hdocs;
  *     - followed by offset to first string
  *     - followed by length of string table
  *     - followed by number of patterns for body
- *     - follwoed by codes for body
+ *     - followed by codes for body
  *     - followed by strings for body
  *
  *   WC_FOR
diff --git a/Src/pattern.c b/Src/pattern.c
index cf78a1138..33c8858a2 100644
--- a/Src/pattern.c
+++ b/Src/pattern.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ typedef union upat *Upat;
 
 #include "pattern.pro"
 
-/* Number of active parenthesised expressions allowed in backreferencing */
+/* Number of active parenthesized expressions allowed in backreferencing */
 #define NSUBEXP  9
 
 /* definition	number	opnd?	meaning */
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ typedef union upat *Upat;
  *
  *  P_ANY, P_ANYOF:  the operand is a null terminated
  *    string.  Normal characters match as expected.  Characters
- *    in the range Meta+PP_ALPHA..Meta+PP_UNKNWN do the approprate
+ *    in the range Meta+PP_ALPHA..Meta+PP_UNKNWN do the appropriate
  *    Posix range tests.  This relies on imeta returning true for these
  *    characters.  We treat unknown POSIX ranges as never matching.
  *    PP_RANGE means the next two (possibly metafied) characters form
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ patcompile(char *exp, int inflags, char **endexp)
 }
 
 /*
- * Main body or parenthesised subexpression in pattern
+ * Main body or parenthesized subexpression in pattern
  * Parenthesis (and any ksh_glob gubbins) will have been removed.
  */
 
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ patcomppiece(int *flagp)
     for (;;) {
 	/*
 	 * Check if we have a string. First, we need to make sure
-	 * the string doesn't introduce a ksh-like parenthesised expression.
+	 * the string doesn't introduce a ksh-like parenthesized expression.
 	 */
 	kshchar = '\0';
 	if (isset(KSHGLOB) && *patparse && patparse[1] == Inpar) {
@@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@ patmatch(Upat prog)
 	     * This is just simple cases, matching one character.
 	     * With approximations, we still handle * this way, since
 	     * no approximation is ever necessary, but other closures
-	     * are handled by the more compicated branching method
+	     * are handled by the more complicated branching method
 	     */
 	    op = P_OP(scan);
 	    /* Note that no counts possibly metafied characters */
diff --git a/Src/prompt.c b/Src/prompt.c
index 06dd2e5a9..762daf2c1 100644
--- a/Src/prompt.c
+++ b/Src/prompt.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static char *bp;
 
 static char *bufline;
 
-/* bp1 is an auxilliary pointer into the buffer, which when non-NULL is *
+/* bp1 is an auxiliary pointer into the buffer, which when non-NULL is *
  * moved whenever the buffer is reallocated.  It is used when data is   *
  * being temporarily held in the buffer.                                */
 
diff --git a/Src/utils.c b/Src/utils.c
index 24d336b7a..e5050ac79 100644
--- a/Src/utils.c
+++ b/Src/utils.c
@@ -2553,7 +2553,7 @@ getbaudrate(struct ttyinfo *shttyinfo)
 
 /* Escape tokens and null characters.  Buf is the string which should be     *
  * escaped.  len is the length of the string.  If len is -1, buf should be   *
- * null terminated.  If len is non-negative and the third paramerer is not   *
+ * null terminated.  If len is non-negative and the third parameter is not   *
  * META_DUP, buf should point to an at least len+1 long memory area.  The    *
  * return value points to the quoted string.  If the given string does not   *
  * contain any special character which should be quoted and the third        *
diff --git a/Src/zsh.h b/Src/zsh.h
index 1697e26a0..881dd05b4 100644
--- a/Src/zsh.h
+++ b/Src/zsh.h
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ struct value {
 #define MAX_ARRLEN    262144
 
 /********************************************/
-/* Defintions for word code                 */
+/* Definitions for word code                 */
 /********************************************/
 
 typedef unsigned int wordcode;
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ struct eccstr {
 #define WCB_AUTOFN()        wc_bld(WC_AUTOFN, 0)
 
 /********************************************/
-/* Defintions for job table and job control */
+/* Definitions for job table and job control */
 /********************************************/
 
 #ifdef NEED_LINUX_TASKS_H
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ struct param {
  * could a lot of other things.
  */
 
-#define SUB_END		0x0001	/* match end instead of begining, % or %%  */
+#define SUB_END		0x0001	/* match end instead of beginning, % or %%  */
 #define SUB_LONG	0x0002	/* % or # doubled, get longest match */
 #define SUB_SUBSTR	0x0004	/* match a substring */
 #define SUB_MATCH	0x0008	/* include the matched portion */
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ enum {
 #define islogin  (isset(LOGINSHELL))
 
 /***********************************************/
-/* Defintions for terminal and display control */
+/* Definitions for terminal and display control */
 /***********************************************/
 
 /* tty state structure */