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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm-dis: Fix spelling in comment


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm-dis: Fix spelling in comments (iff -> if)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:22:18 +0200
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Am 17.04.2012 19:58, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> The spelling 'iff' is sometimes used for 'if and only if'.
> Even if that meaning could be applied here, it is not used
> consistently. It is also quite unusual to use 'if and only if'
> in technical documentation. Therefore a simple 'if' should be
> preferred here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> ---
>  arm-dis.c |   22 +++++++++++-----------
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Aren't the *-dis.c files imported from binutils? In that case I'd
suggest to stay in sync with how they write/wrote it.
(Would spelling fixes in comments be subject to the GPLv3?)

Andreas

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