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


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm-dis: Fix spelling in comments (iff -> if)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:20:29 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:58:13PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
> 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(-)

Given the discussion about the origin of this code I think it makes
sense to leave the 'iff' to reduce spurious differences.

I am not taking this patch for now.  Feel free to discuss more if you do
think it should go in.

Stefan



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