Thanks for caring enough about our patches to even notice the grammar :)

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Sandra Loosemore
<san...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 10:27 PM, Andrew Waterman wrote:
>>
>> I have to disagree.  It's standard to not hyphenate an
>> adverb-adjective compound, since they tend not to be ambiguous.  But
>> if the standard in the GCC documentation is to hyphenate, I will not
>> stand in the way!
>
>
> Heh, you got me on this one -- it's one of those weird special cases, the
> "adverb ending in -ly plus participle" case listed here:
>
> http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf
>
> So the patch is OK as-is, but maybe I need a few new brain cells.  :-P
>
> -Sandra
>

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