On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:09:15PM -0800, Mike Stump via Gcc-patches wrote: > On Nov 15, 2021, at 5:48 PM, Marek Polacek via Gcc-patches > <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > Nitpicking time. It's spelled "ones' complement" rather than "one's > > complement". I didn't go into config/. > > > > Ok for trunk? > > So, is it two's complement or twos' complement then? Seems like it should be > the same, but wikipedia suggests it is two's complement, as does google. If > that is wrong, you should go edit it as well. :-) It is "two's complement": https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-November/584543.html but Knuth also continues to say that there's "twos' complement notation", which "has radix 3 and complementation with respect to (2...22)_3."
It's not lost on me how inconsequential this patch is; I'm happy to just drop it and let the copy editor in me sleep. Marek
