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- From: jimb@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Jim Blandy)
- Subject: very nonfatal error in GDB manual
- Message-ID: <9209030104.AA15872@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:04:52 GMT
- Approved: bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 15
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- The following sentence appears in the node "Messages/Warnings" in the
- info files distributed with GDB 4.2 and 4.5:
-
- By default, GDB is cautious, and asks what sometimes seem to be a
- lot of stupid questions to confirm certain commands.
-
- The noun clause 'a lot of stupid questions', while referring to many
- stupid questions, is singular - 'a lot' is just one lot. Therefore,
- one should use 'seems', not 'seem':
-
- By default, GDB is cautious, and asks what sometimes seems to be a
- lot of stupid questions to confirm certain commands.
-
- This error renders the GDB manual practically unusable. :-)
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