On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Sandra Loosemore wrote:

> This patch is for a long-standing issue with the way -fno-common is
> documented.  The specific bug report was about an ambiguous use of the word
> "This", but as I looked more at the way this option was described, I realized
> the whole thing was needlessly confusing because it didn't use the correct
> terminology -- the current text tries to use "declaration" to describe what
> the C standard calls a "tentative definition".
> 
> Joseph, can you look this over with your language-lawyer hat on, before I
> commit it?  I'm pretty sure I understand what this option does, but I want to
> be sure I'm explaining it correctly now.

This looks correct to me.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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