On 10 January 2008 22:47, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:32:28PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>
>>> In addition, improvements to the GCC infrastructure allows several
>>> existing warning flags new ability to spot problematic code.
>>>
>>> Is this sentence okay? I'm not a native speaker, so I might miss a
>>> nuance here.
>>
>> No, it's badly worded, but fixing it seems to be more than a matter of
>> rephrasing. It's basically saying that existing warning flags will
>> produce warnings, but I'd prefer to see something more specific.
>
> ^- s/warnings/additional warnings/, or maybe "fewer false
> positives" as well.
" In addition, improvements to the GCC infrastructure allow
improvements in the ability of several existing warnings to
spot problematic code" ?
cheers,
DaveK
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