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2.5.61 yet more pedantry: complement vs compliment.

PATCH New Steven Cole 1 participant 1 message Feb 16, 2003

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PATCH 1/1 2.5.61 yet more pedantry: complement vs compliment.

A compliment is an expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration. As far as I can tell, this word does not yet have a place in the kernel source.

A complement on the other hand, is what is meant in the following places. Diffed against 2.5.61 up through cset 1.1043.

Steven

Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt linux-2.5.61-1043/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 This document is intended to give an good overview of how to debug 
 Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture it isn't intended as a complete reference & not a
 tutorial on the fundamentals of C & assembly, it dosen't go into
-390 IO in any detail. It is intended to compliment the documents in the
+390 IO in any detail. It is intended to complement the documents in the
 reference section below & any other worthwhile references you get.
 
 It is intended like the Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Reference Summary
arch/alpha/lib/csum_ipv6_magic.S +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/arch/alpha/lib/csum_ipv6_magic.S linux-2.5.61-1043/arch/alpha/lib/csum_ipv6_magic.S
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 	extwl	$0,2,$1		# e0    : fold 17-bit value
 	zapnot	$0,3,$0		# .. e1 :
 	addq	$0,$1,$0	# e0    :
-	not	$0,$0		# e1    : and compliment.
+	not	$0,$0		# e1    : and complement.
 
 	zapnot	$0,3,$0		# e0    :
 	ret			# .. e1 :
arch/ppc/kernel/irq.c +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/arch/ppc/kernel/irq.c linux-2.5.61-1043/arch/ppc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  * The MPC8xx has an interrupt mask in the SIU.  If a bit is set, the
  * interrupt is _enabled_.  As expected, IRQ0 is bit 0 in the 32-bit
  * mask register (of which only 16 are defined), hence the weird shifting
- * and compliment of the cached_irq_mask.  I want to be able to stuff
+ * and complement of the cached_irq_mask.  I want to be able to stuff
  * this right into the SIU SMASK register.
  * Many of the prep/chrp functions are conditional compiled on CONFIG_8xx
  * to reduce code space and undefined function references.
drivers/char/rio/rioboot.c +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/drivers/char/rio/rioboot.c linux-2.5.61-1043/drivers/char/rio/rioboot.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
 		** compatible with the whole Tp family. (lies, damn lies, it'll never
 		** work in a month of Sundays).
 		**
-		** The nfix nyble is the 1s compliment of the nyble value you
+		** The nfix nyble is the 1s complement of the nyble value you
 		** want to load - in this case we wanted 'F' so we nfix loaded '0'.
 		*/
 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.reg +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.reg linux-2.5.61-1043/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.reg
@@ -3725,7 +3725,7 @@
 
 	/*
 	 * The minimum number of commands still outstanding required
-	 * to continue coalessing (2's compliment of value).
+	 * to continue coalessing (2's complement of value).
 	 */
 	INT_COALESSING_MINCMDS {
 		size		1
include/asm-mips64/sn/launch.h +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/include/asm-mips64/sn/launch.h linux-2.5.61-1043/include/asm-mips64/sn/launch.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 /*
  * The launch routine is called only if the complement address is correct.
  *
- * Before control is transferred to a routine, the compliment address
+ * Before control is transferred to a routine, the complement address
  * is zeroed (invalidated) to prevent an accidental call from a spurious
  * interrupt.
  *
include/asm-mips64/sn/nmi.h +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/include/asm-mips64/sn/nmi.h linux-2.5.61-1043/include/asm-mips64/sn/nmi.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  * The NMI routine is called only if the complement address is
  * correct.
  *
- * Before control is transferred to a routine, the compliment address
+ * Before control is transferred to a routine, the complement address
  * is zeroed (invalidated) to prevent an accidental call from a spurious
  * interrupt.
  *
include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h +1 -1
diff -ur linux-2.5.61-1043-orig/include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h linux-2.5.61-1043/include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
 #define PTRACE_SETFPAREGS         21
 
 /* There are for debugging 64-bit processes, either from a 32 or 64 bit
- * parent.  Thus their compliments are for debugging 32-bit processes only.
+ * parent.  Thus their complements are for debugging 32-bit processes only.
  */
 
 #define PTRACE_GETREGS64	  22