# HG changeset patch # User Jim Meyering # Date 1156744364 0 # Node ID 85aa09b61c066aee680da873edc3faf2e4c80cec # Parent 510edb12693811fd0d680a9467f181f1c8e31e5b * visibility.texi: Actually read and correct the grammar of the sentence affected by yesterday's change. diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-08-28 Jim Meyering + + * visibility.texi: Actually read and correct the grammar of the + sentence affected by yesterday's change. + 2006-08-27 Jim Meyering * visibility.texi: Remove duplicate word: "pointer". diff --git a/doc/visibility.texi b/doc/visibility.texi --- a/doc/visibility.texi +++ b/doc/visibility.texi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @c Documentation of gnulib module 'visibility'. -@c Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ with @code{LD_PRELOAD}.) Whereas a call to a function for which the compiler can assume that it is in the same shared library is just a direct "call" instructions. Similarly for variables: A reference to a global variable -fetches a pointer in the so-called GOT (global offset table); this pointer -to the variable's memory. So the code to access it is two memory +fetches a pointer in the so-called GOT (global offset table); this is a +pointer to the variable's memory. So the code to access it is two memory load instructions. Whereas for a variable which is known to reside in the same shared library, it is just a direct memory access: one memory load instruction.