On 2017/11/18 12:10:27 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:07:02AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> >From a2d0cd80fb99a15bd5265f12863ac8f0183f9a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 23:39:26 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] memorder: Fix trivial typo
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I applied all three, and especially like the script taking up some
> of the manual handling of quick quizzes with figures!
>
> One thing I left out, please see below.
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> ---
>> memorder/memorder.tex | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/memorder/memorder.tex b/memorder/memorder.tex
>> index 68dc09b..d11df62 100644
>> --- a/memorder/memorder.tex
>> +++ b/memorder/memorder.tex
>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Causality and sequencing are deeply intuitive, and hackers often
>> tend to have a much stronger grasp of these concepts than does
>> the general population.
>> These intuitions can be extremely powerful tools when writing, analyzing,
>> -and debugging both sequential code and parallel code that makes
>> +and debugging both sequential code and parallel code that make
>> use of standard mutual-exclusion mechanisms, such as locking and
>> RCU.
>> Unfortunately, these intuitions break down completely in face of
>
> If it was "intuitions" that made use of "standard mutual-exclusion
> mechanisms", this fix would be correct. Plural "intuitions" would
> require plural "make". (And no, I have no idea why English adds "s"
> to nouns to denote plural, but removes "s" from verbs to denote plural.
> Probably because it is English...)
>
> But it is "code" that made use of "standard mutual-exclusion mechanisms".
> I am treating "code" like "water", that is, "lines of code" would be
> plural (like "molecules of water"), but "code" is singular (like "water").
I see. What happened in my mind was a dumb pattern match with:
"Both X and Y that makes use of ..."
>
> I also treat "data" as singular, that is, as a collective noun. This
> is controversial, and people who like "data" to be plural probably also
> like "code" to be plural when referring to lines of code.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(word)
>
> And it appears that most people are now willing to put up with "data"
> as a collective noun when applied to computers. Others are probably
> still protesting that "data" is the plural form of "datum" in Latin.
>
> But, yes, English! :-/
Yes. "data" always bother/bothers me... :-(
Thanks, Akira
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ follows up with more detail on what representative hardware platforms
>> actually do to unwary parallel programmers.
>> Finally, Section~\ref{sec:memorder:Where is Memory Ordering Needed?}
>> provides some rules of thumb for what situations require parallel
>> -programmers to take special action to preserver memory ordering.
>> +programmers to take special action to preserve memory ordering.
>>
>> \section{Ordering: Why and How?}
>> \label{sec:memorder:Ordering: Why and How?}
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
>>
>
>
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