From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com>
But does it, though? From http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html:Free for all The following changes can be made by everyone with SVN write access: Fixes for obvious typos in ChangeLog files, docs, web pages, comments and similar stuff. Just check in the fix and copy it to gcc-patches. We don't want to get overly anal-retentive about checkin policies.
Incorrect whitespace is a "typo". I.e. an error in "typed" material.