On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > It's a feature, not a bug. <G> There's a news item being worked on in > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but it's > too new to have been archived yet. Here's a copy of the proposed news > item.
(Quoting order changed.) Sorry, Walter, but I just couldn't let this go. Reading it hurt too much. English grammar has very few hard-and-fast rules, but one is absolutely sacrosanct: every verb agrees in number with its subject. If I'd been guilty of this at school I'd have earned myself a stiff rebuke: > An indicator are linker errors ... [...] > [Additionally, following Gentoo policies, the default-off use-flags > nopie (only present in Hardened) and nossp are replaced starting with > gcc-6 by default-on use-flags pie and ssp.] No; they are replaced, by the developers, with those flags. > Be advised that switching from an older version to GCC 6 will ... Those first three words are redundant; they add nothing. > ... relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used > when... "Can not" should be "cannot" (different meaning). I did say this is all off-topic. Apologies to anyone who feels aggrieved. I could have suggested several other improvements as well, so I could say I've let you off lightly. ;-) (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've been unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any longer.) -- Regards Peter
