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Re: [RFC] s/preceed/precede/


> (From the "I should be spending my time in my priority tasks" series.)

:-)

> It looks like "preceed" is wrong and "precede" is right. I can't find
> "preceed" in neither Merriam-Webster nor dictionary.com. Also, there are
> many places using "precede" in GDB's source code.
> 
> But "preceed" is so common that I'm not so sure about this patch.
> Perhaps it's just an alternative spelling?

As far as I can tell "preceed" is not correct. In fact, I can see
pages where this is explicitly listed as a mispelling. For instance,
the following Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
And I found evidence that he same fix was made in the ZSH code.

Sometimes, it's tricky, because British and American spelling
sometimes differ.  But it looks like you there is only one
correct spelling in this case.

> 2011-07-04  Thiago Jung Bauermann  <bauerman.ibm.com>
> 
> gdb/
> 	* ada-lang.c: Fix typos.
> 	* amd64-tdep.c: Likewise.
> 	* breakpoint.c: Likewise.
> 	* cli/cli-decode.c: Likewise.
> 	* findcmd.c: Likewise.
> 	* inline-frame.c: Likewise.
> 	* mi/mi-main.c: Likewise.
> 	* minsyms.c: Likewise.
> 	* monitor.c: Likewise.
> 	* monitor.h: Likewise.
> 	* prologue-value.c: Likewise.
> 	* reverse.c: Likewise.
> 	* s390-tdep.c: Likewise.
> 
> gdb/testsuite/
> 	* gdb.base/call-sc.c: Likewise.
> 	* gdb.base/ifelse.exp: Likewise.
> 	* gdb.base/structs.c: Likewise.
> 
> gdb/doc/
> 	* gdb.texinfo: Likewise.

OK.

-- 
Joel


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