This buys back some comment changes from Emacs,
and fixes other instances I noticed.
---
ChangeLog | 6 +++---
build-aux/announce-gen | 4 ++--
build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk | 4 ++--
build-aux/useless-if-before-free | 4 ++--
doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi | 2 +-
doc/warnings.texi | 2 +-
lib/c-strcaseeq.h | 2 +-
lib/cdefs.h | 2 +-
lib/glthread/thread.c | 2 +-
lib/stackvma.c | 10 +++++-----
lib/streq.h | 2 +-
lib/thrd.c | 2 +-
lib/windows-thread.c | 2 +-
m4/gnulib-common.m4 | 4 ++--
m4/libgcrypt.m4 | 2 +-
tests/test-update-copyright.sh | 2 +-
16 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 211e45f8a0..50a38d675f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -76070,7 +76070,7 @@
localcharset, localename: MS-Windows support for non-default locales
* lib/localcharset.c (locale_charset) [WINDOWS_NATIVE]: Before
falling back on the default system codepage, try extracting
- the codepage from what 'setlocale' returns. This allows to
+ the codepage from what 'setlocale' returns. This can
take into account changes of the codeset due to non-default
locale set by a previous call to 'setlocale'.
* lib/localename.c (LOCALE_NAME_MAX_LENGTH) [WINDOWS_NATIVE]:
@@ -76078,7 +76078,7 @@
(enum_locales_fn, get_lcid) [WINDOWS_NATIVE]: New functions.
(gl_locale_name_thread) [WINDOWS_NATIVE]: Produce the
current locale by calling 'setlocale', then converting the
- locale name into LCID by calling 'get_lcid'. This allows to
+ locale name into LCID by calling 'get_lcid'. This can
take into account changes in the current locale from the
default one, in contrast to GetThreadLocale.
@@ -157049,7 +157049,7 @@
* lib/argp-help.c (argp_doc): Split the untranslated doc string on
'\v', and translate the two parts separately, instead of feeding
- the whole string to gettext. This allows to exclude
+ the whole string to gettext. One can exclude
'\v' from the strings visible to the translator by writing doc
strings as N_("..") "\v" N_("..").
diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen
index 8e75608cbd..3970d3ce48 100755
--- a/build-aux/announce-gen
+++ b/build-aux/announce-gen
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
#
# Written by Jim Meyering
-# This is a prologue that allows to run a perl script as an executable
+# This prologue allows running a perl script as an executable
# on systems that are compliant to a POSIX version before POSIX:2017.
# On such systems, the usual invocation of an executable through execlp()
# or execvp() fails with ENOEXEC if it is a script that does not start
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
eval 'exec perl -wSx "$0" "$@"'
if 0;
-my $VERSION = '2025-01-31 23:21'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2025-05-08 07:37'; # UTC
# The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
# for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
# If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
diff --git a/build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk b/build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk
index b287476834..b2b4867d07 100755
--- a/build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk
+++ b/build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#
# Written by Jim Meyering
-# This is a prologue that allows to run a perl script as an executable
+# This prologue allows running a perl script as an executable
# on systems that are compliant to a POSIX version before POSIX:2017.
# On such systems, the usual invocation of an executable through execlp()
# or execvp() fails with ENOEXEC if it is a script that does not start
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
eval 'exec perl -wSx "$0" "$@"'
if 0;
-my $VERSION = '2024-07-04 10:56'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2025-05-08 07:38'; # UTC
# The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
# for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
# If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
diff --git a/build-aux/useless-if-before-free b/build-aux/useless-if-before-free
index 99d474ecdf..e78fa8659f 100755
--- a/build-aux/useless-if-before-free
+++ b/build-aux/useless-if-before-free
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
#
# Written by Jim Meyering
-# This is a prologue that allows to run a perl script as an executable
+# This prologue allows running a perl script as an executable
# on systems that are compliant to a POSIX version before POSIX:2017.
# On such systems, the usual invocation of an executable through execlp()
# or execvp() fails with ENOEXEC if it is a script that does not start
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
eval 'exec perl -wSx "$0" "$@"'
if 0;
-my $VERSION = '2024-07-17 02:10'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2025-05-08 07:38'; # UTC
# The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
# for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
# If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi b/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi
index 77142dee50..3a7b3cbe97 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi
@@ -53,5 +53,5 @@ On OS/2, this function does not work on an opened file.
@mindex utimens
Extension: Gnulib provides a module @samp{utimens} that works around these
-problems and allows to set the time with nanosecond resolution (as far as
+problems and can set the time with nanosecond resolution (as far as
supported by the file system).
diff --git a/doc/warnings.texi b/doc/warnings.texi
index 8b1447cafe..84b7acd105 100644
--- a/doc/warnings.texi
+++ b/doc/warnings.texi
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
@mindex warnings
@mindex manywarnings
-The @code{warnings} module allows to regularly build a package with more
+The @code{warnings} module allows regularly building a package with more
GCC warnings than the default warnings emitted by GCC. It is often used
indirectly through the @code{manywarnings} module
(@pxref{manywarnings}).
diff --git a/lib/c-strcaseeq.h b/lib/c-strcaseeq.h
index 0eb19bcfac..4a3681007e 100644
--- a/lib/c-strcaseeq.h
+++ b/lib/c-strcaseeq.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ extern "C" {
#endif
-/* STRCASEEQ allows to optimize string comparison with a small literal string.
+/* STRCASEEQ optimizes string comparison with a small literal string.
STRCASEEQ (s, "UTF-8", 'U','T','F','-','8',0,0,0,0)
is semantically equivalent to
c_strcasecmp (s, "UTF-8") == 0
diff --git a/lib/cdefs.h b/lib/cdefs.h
index 65da09dc09..2682c092f0 100644
--- a/lib/cdefs.h
+++ b/lib/cdefs.h
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
# endif
#endif
-/* ISO C99 also allows to declare arrays as non-overlapping. The syntax is
+/* ISO C99 also allows declaring arrays as non-overlapping. The syntax is
array_name[restrict]
GCC 3.1 and clang support this.
This syntax is not usable in C++ mode. */
diff --git a/lib/glthread/thread.c b/lib/glthread/thread.c
index 82fbd263d4..2d015b6b0b 100644
--- a/lib/glthread/thread.c
+++ b/lib/glthread/thread.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct thrd_with_exitvalue
void * volatile exitvalue;
};
-/* The Thread-Specific Storage (TSS) key that allows to access each thread's
+/* The Thread-Specific Storage (TSS) key that allows accessing each thread's
'struct thrd_with_exitvalue *' pointer. */
static tss_t thrd_with_exitvalue_key;
diff --git a/lib/stackvma.c b/lib/stackvma.c
index d08347fece..68ce5cae60 100644
--- a/lib/stackvma.c
+++ b/lib/stackvma.c
@@ -579,8 +579,8 @@ vma_iterate (struct callback_locals *locals)
/* =========================== stackvma-mincore.c ===========================
*/
-/* mincore() is a system call that allows to inquire the status of a
- range of pages of virtual memory. In particular, it allows to inquire
+/* mincore() is a system call that supports inquiring the status of a
+ range of pages of virtual memory. In particular, it supports inquiring
whether a page is mapped at all (except on Mac OS X, where mincore
returns 0 even for unmapped addresses).
As of 2006, mincore() is supported by: possible bits:
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ vma_iterate (struct callback_locals *locals)
- AIX, since AIX 5.3, 1
As of 2019, also on
- Hurd.
- However, while the API allows to easily determine the bounds of mapped
+ However, while the API allows easily determining the bounds of mapped
virtual memory, it does not make it easy to find the bounds of _unmapped_
virtual memory ranges. We try to work around this, but it may still be
slow. */
@@ -1150,8 +1150,8 @@ sigsegv_get_vma (uintptr_t address, struct vma_struct
*vma)
/* --------------------------- stackvma-mquery.c --------------------------- */
-/* mquery() is a system call that allows to inquire the status of a
- range of pages of virtual memory. In particular, it allows to inquire
+/* mquery() is a system call that supports inquiring the status of a
+ range of pages of virtual memory. In particular, it supports inquiring
whether a page is mapped at all, and where is the next unmapped page
after a given address.
As of 2021, mquery() is supported by:
diff --git a/lib/streq.h b/lib/streq.h
index 9d91a6a610..1f1ff38f6b 100644
--- a/lib/streq.h
+++ b/lib/streq.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ extern "C" {
#endif
-/* STREQ_OPT allows to optimize string comparison with a small literal string.
+/* STREQ_OPT optimizes string comparison with a small literal string.
STREQ_OPT (s, "EUC-KR", 'E', 'U', 'C', '-', 'K', 'R', 0, 0, 0)
is semantically equivalent to
strcmp (s, "EUC-KR") == 0
diff --git a/lib/thrd.c b/lib/thrd.c
index 4a31cd868f..ea7f0f5397 100644
--- a/lib/thrd.c
+++ b/lib/thrd.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
AIX 7.3.1 has a corrected thrd_start_t. But the thrd_join function still
never stores an exit code. */
-/* The Thread-Specific Storage (TSS) key that allows to access each thread's
+/* The Thread-Specific Storage (TSS) key that allows accessing each thread's
'struct thrd_with_exitcode *' pointer. */
static tss_t thrd_with_exitcode_key;
diff --git a/lib/windows-thread.c b/lib/windows-thread.c
index 2cef22f9b7..9f6fd8b606 100644
--- a/lib/windows-thread.c
+++ b/lib/windows-thread.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
#include "windows-once.h"
#include "windows-tls.h"
-/* The Thread-Local Storage (TLS) key that allows to access each thread's
+/* The Thread-Local Storage (TLS) key that allows accessing each thread's
'struct glwthread_thread_struct *' pointer. */
static DWORD self_key = (DWORD)-1;
diff --git a/m4/gnulib-common.m4 b/m4/gnulib-common.m4
index d5bf2fb358..a07c7dd5a8 100644
--- a/m4/gnulib-common.m4
+++ b/m4/gnulib-common.m4
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ dnl
dnl This macro sets two variables:
dnl - gl_cv_onwards_func_<func> to yes / no / "future OS version"
dnl - ac_cv_func_<func> to yes / no / no
-dnl The first variable allows to distinguish all three cases.
+dnl The first variable allows distinguishing all three cases.
dnl The second variable is set, so that an invocation
dnl gl_CHECK_FUNCS_ANDROID([func], [[#include <foo.h>]])
dnl can be used as a drop-in replacement for
@@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ dnl
dnl This macro sets two variables:
dnl - gl_cv_onwards_func_<func> to yes / no / "future OS version"
dnl - ac_cv_func_<func> to yes / no / no
-dnl The first variable allows to distinguish all three cases.
+dnl The first variable allows distinguishing all three cases.
dnl The second variable is set, so that an invocation
dnl gl_CHECK_FUNCS_MACOS([func], [[#include <foo.h>]])
dnl can be used as a drop-in replacement for
diff --git a/m4/libgcrypt.m4 b/m4/libgcrypt.m4
index 353df81b6d..a891257be9 100644
--- a/m4/libgcrypt.m4
+++ b/m4/libgcrypt.m4
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ dnl MINIMUM-VERSION is a string with the version number
optionally prefixed
dnl with the API version to also check the API compatibility. Example:
dnl a MINIMUM-VERSION of 1:1.2.5 won't pass the test unless the installed
dnl version of libgcrypt is at least 1.2.5 *and* the API number is 1. Using
-dnl this features allows to prevent build against newer versions of libgcrypt
+dnl this feature can prevent builds against newer versions of libgcrypt
dnl with a changed API.
dnl
dnl If a prefix option is not used, the config script is first
diff --git a/tests/test-update-copyright.sh b/tests/test-update-copyright.sh
index fc405a6214..e98c541afe 100755
--- a/tests/test-update-copyright.sh
+++ b/tests/test-update-copyright.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ s=$TMP-script
cat <<\EOF > $s
#!/bin/sh
#! -*-perl-*-
-# This is a prologue that allows to run a perl script as an executable
+# This prologue allows running a perl script as an executable
# on systems that are compliant to a POSIX version before POSIX:2017.
# On such systems, the usual invocation of an executable through execlp()
# or execvp() fails with ENOEXEC if it is a script that does not start
--
2.48.1
