On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, Martin Liška wrote:
> May I please ask a native speaker for a correction of my wording?

That excludes myself ;), but let me give it a pass, and perhaps
you can then post an updated patch (for Jonathan or another native
speaker to go through)?


> +  <li>New warning <a
> href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wtsan";><code>-Wtsan</code></a>,
> enabled by default,
> +      warns about unsupported features in ThreadSanitizer
> (<code>std::atomic_thread_fence</code>).</li>

Is this atomic_thread_fence the only one and there may be different
ones in the future?

In that case maybe write something like "(currently <code>...</code>).

> +  <li>Series of if conditions, sharing a common index variable, can be
> transformed into a switch statement if each

"A series of" 

> +      of them contains a comparison expession.  Example:

"expression"

> +  <li>GCOV data file format can effectively store a group of counters that
> are all zero.</li>

"The GCOV data..."

> +  <li>Some <code>gcov</code> tool options are renamed:
> <code>-i,--json-format</code> to
> +  <code>-j,--json-format</code> and <code>-j,--human-readable</code> to
> <code>-H,--human-readable</code>.</li>

I suggest "have been renamed".

Are -i and --json-format the short and long forms of the same
option?  If so, how about saying something like "Some short options
of the <code>gcov</code> tool..."?

And then 

  <code>-i</code> (<code>--json-format</code>) to <code>j</code>
  and <code>-j</code> (<code>--json-format</code>) to <code>-H...

> +        <li>The <code>no_stack_protector</code> attribute has been added
> to mark functions which should not be instrumented

That line is a little very long. ;-)


This is okay modulo the notes above.

Thank you,
Gerald

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