On 5/21/19 11:47 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: > The GCC coding style says to use "floating-point" as an adjective > rather than "floating point." After enhancing the -Wformat-diag > checker to detect this I found a bunch of uses of the latter, such > as in: > > gcc/c/c-decl.c:10944 > gcc/c/c-parser.c:9423, 9446, 9450, etc. > gcc/convert.c:418, 422 > gcc/cp/call.c:5070 > gcc/cp/cvt.c:886 > > Before I fix them all and adjust the tests, I want to make sure > we really want to follow this rule. The C standard uses both > interchangeably. With just one exception, the C++ standard uses > the hyphenated form. The hyphenated form is correct English, so I certainly prefer it. :-)
Bill > > Thanks > Martin >
