On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 14:34, SF Markus Elfring
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 5 Generation of the result
> Normally, the only output is a diff printed to standard output.
> ...
> -o <file> The output  file.
> ..."

You are confusing the default with an option here. By default a
unified diff is printed to stdout. This is what is in the "normally"
term here. On the contrary, the -o parameter is outputting a new
version of the input C file, essentially the result of applying the
diff as a patch to the input C. I agree it could be better worded, and
I encourage you to submit a patch if you care.

For what it is worth, it is not hard to test the behaviour yourself
and I guess that a little time together with spatch make you quite
oblivious to the choice of naming and words in the command line
option. I know it did for me.




-- 
J.
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