On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Sandra Loosemore wrote: >> I noticed you changed return-value and return-type to their >> variants without a dash. Would it make sense to add the >> following to https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#Spelling ? > Perhaps add here that "return type" and "return value" are nouns. It > would be correct to hyphenate them if they were used as adjective > phrases immediately before a noun (although I'm having trouble coming > up with an example of such usage that would make any sense).
Thanks, Sandra. I have committed the updated patch below which makes this explicit. Gerald Index: codingconventions.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/codingconventions.html,v retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -r1.76 codingconventions.html --- codingconventions.html 16 Aug 2016 09:24:33 -0000 1.76 +++ codingconventions.html 18 Sep 2016 13:49:47 -0000 @@ -457,6 +457,11 @@ <td></td> </tr> <tr> + <td>"return type" (noun), "return value" (noun)</td> + <td>"return-type", "return-value"</td> + <td></td> + </tr> + <tr> <td>"run time" (noun), "run-time" (adjective); the time at which the program is run</td> <td>"runtime"</td>