On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 14:57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Michael Hayes wrote:
> >
> > This fixes a spelling "fix" that resulted in a compile error.
> >
> > With apologies to Russell King.
>
> Ugh, please make things like this just write out the full non-contracted
> thing. Ie "cannot" is a perfectly fine word, we don't need to force
> spelling errors.
>
> Linus
For yet another alternative:
[steven@spc9 steven]$ cat -n hello.c
1 #if 0
2 /* This won't break anything */
3 #include <bogus.h>
4 #endif
5
6 #if 0
7 * This won't compile
8 #include <missing.h>
9 #endif
10
11 #include <stdio.h>
12 int main()
13 {
14 printf("Hello world!\n");
15 }
[steven@spc9 steven]$ cc -c hello.c
hello.c:7:11: missing terminating ' character
--- linux-2.5.64/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h.orig Thu Mar 6 15:19:17 2003
+++ linux-2.5.64/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h Thu Mar 6 15:20:13 2003
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#if 0
- * The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct
- * dependencies. Without this, it can't figure out that this
- * file does indeed depend on the cpu-*.h files.
+/* The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct */
+/* dependencies. Without this, it can't figure out that this */
+/* file does indeed depend on the cpu-*.h files. */
#include <asm/cpu-single.h>
#include <asm/cpu-multi26.h>
#include <asm/cpu-multi32.h>
-
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