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Re: [PATCH, gas] Use command line consistently in gas doc


Hi Richard,

On 20/02/18 10:25, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
On 20/02/18 09:48, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
Hi,

c-aarch64.texi and c-arm.texi contain several occurrences of commandline
instead of "command line" which the rest of gas documentation seems to
have settled on. This patch changes these occurences for better
consistency.

ChangeLog entry is as follows:

*** gas/ChangeLog ***

2018-02-19  Thomas Preud'homme  <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>

         * doc/c-aarch64.texi: Replace uses of "commandline" by "command
line".
         * doc/c-arm.texi: Likewise.

Committed as obvious.

If I remember my English grammar correctly, since the cases you change
here all use "command line" to qualify a noun ("option") I think they
should be hyphenated, so "command-line option".

I agree and my first attempt was changing it in this way but a grep for command.line shows that "command line" is used all over the place and command-line very seldomly. I went for consistency.

Best regards,

Thomas


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