[DOCPATCH] Re: [Bug-gnupress] Diction everywhere

[Simon Law]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:23:43PM +0200, Peter Kaiser wrote:
> "Prepend" (verb) should be "prefix" everywhere.

        This is the patch I applied:

2003-05-11  Peter Kaiser  <address@hidden>

        * doc/cpp.texi: Use `prefix' instead of the hackish `prepend.'
        * doc/cppinternals.texi: As above.
        * doc/cppopts.texi: As above.
        * doc/extend.texi: As above.
        * doc/install.texi: As above.
        * doc/invoke.texi: As above.

--- cpp.texi.orig       2003-01-26 15:56:54.000000000 -0500
+++ cpp.texi    2003-05-13 11:44:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@
 @table @code
 @item #include <@var{file}>
 This variant is used for system header files.  It searches for a file
-named @var{file} in a standard list of system directories.  You can prepend
+named @var{file} in a standard list of system directories.  You can prefix
 directories to this list with the @option{-I} option (@pxref{Invocation}).
 
 @item #include "@var{file}"
--- cppinternals.texi.orig      2002-01-07 14:03:36.000000000 -0500
+++ cppinternals.texi   2003-05-13 11:44:55.000000000 -0400
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
 @item Assertions
 
 Assertions are in a separate namespace to macros.  To enforce this, cpp
-actually prepends a @code{#} character before hashing and entering it in
+actually prefixes a @code{#} character before hashing and entering it in
 the hash table.  An assertion's node points to a chain of answers to
 that assertion.
 
@@ -1034,8 +1034,8 @@
 Files included with the @code{<foo.h>} syntax start the lookup directly
 in the second half of this chain.  However, files included with the
 @code{"foo.h"} syntax start at the beginning of the chain, but with one
-extra directory prepended.  This is the directory of the current file;
-the one containing the @code{#include} directive.  Prepending this
+extra directory prefixed.  This is the directory of the current file;
+the one containing the @code{#include} directive.  Prefixing this
 directory on a per-file basis is handled by the function
 @code{search_from}.
 
--- cppopts.texi.orig   2003-04-23 21:33:02.000000000 -0400
+++ cppopts.texi        2003-05-13 11:45:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 dependency generation, @option{-MG} assumes missing header files are
 generated files and adds them to the dependency list without raising
 an error.  The dependency filename is taken directly from the
address@hidden directive without prepending any path.  @option{-MG}
address@hidden directive without prefixing any path.  @option{-MG}
 also suppresses preprocessed output, as a missing header file renders
 this useless.
 
--- extend.texi.orig    2003-05-13 10:22:18.000000000 -0400
+++ extend.texi 2003-05-13 11:45:11.000000000 -0400
@@ -4056,7 +4056,7 @@
 the assembler code should be @samp{myfoo} rather than the usual
 @samp{_foo}.
 
-On systems where an underscore is normally prepended to the name of a C
+On systems where an underscore is normally prefixed to the name of a C
 function or variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
 linker that do not start with an underscore.
 
@@ -6525,7 +6525,7 @@
 @cindex pragma, extern_prefix
 
 This pragma renames all subsequent function and variable declarations
-such that @var{string} is prepended to the name.  This effect may be
+such that @var{string} is prefixed to the name.  This effect may be
 terminated by using another @code{extern_prefix} pragma with the
 empty string.
 
--- install.texi.orig   2003-05-13 09:46:30.000000000 -0400
+++ install.texi        2003-05-13 11:45:36.000000000 -0400
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
 
 @item address@hidden
 GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
-installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
+installing them. This option prefixes @var{prefix} to the names of
 programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
 being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
 
 All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
 complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
address@hidden) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
address@hidden) are prefixed (appended) before further transformations
 can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
 
 As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@
 For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
 with the target alias in front of their name, as in
 @samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
-before the target alias is prepended to the name - so, specifying
+before the target alias is pprefixed to the name---so, specifying
 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
 resulting binary would be installed as
 @file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
@@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@
 
 This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
 make sure it is in your @env{PATH}.  The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
-prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
+prefixed to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
 remarks you have on your results or your build environment.  Please
 do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
 messages may be automatically processed.
--- invoke.texi.orig    2003-05-13 11:37:20.000000000 -0400
+++ invoke.texi 2003-05-13 11:47:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -5107,7 +5107,7 @@
 @item %D
 Dump out a @option{-L} option for each directory that GCC believes might
 contain startup files.  If the target supports multilibs then the
-current multilib directory will be prepended to each of these paths.
+current multilib directory will be prefixed to each of these paths.
 
 @item %M
 Output the multilib directory with directory separators replaced with
@@ -9217,7 +9217,7 @@
 
 @item -mmangle-cpu
 @opindex mmangle-cpu
-Prepend the name of the CPU to all public symbol names.
+Prefix the name of the CPU to all public symbol names.
 In multiple-processor systems, there are many ARC variants with different
 instruction and register set characteristics.  This flag prevents code
 compiled for one CPU to be linked with code compiled for another.
@@ -9912,7 +9912,7 @@
 @itemx -mno-toplevel-symbols
 @opindex mtoplevel-symbols
 @opindex mno-toplevel-symbols
-Prepend (do not prepend) a @samp{:} to all global symbols, so the assembly
+Prefix (do not prefix) a @samp{:} to all global symbols, so the assembly
 code can be used with the @code{PREFIX} assembly directive.
 
 @item -melf