From: ANTHONY APPLEYARD <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 08:18:46 GMT
Subject: a point re spelling
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil (Kent Dolan) wrote on Tue 8 Nov 94 02:09:05 GMT (Subject:
Re: GnuC memory allocation and swapping do disk.):-
  > That's beating up on the English language pretty hard. Malloc() uses
memory in the sense that if you malloc() until you have malloc()ed more than
the allowable total of physical + virtual, you should get back a failure in
any reasonable memory management system implementation. ...

  Best write "... hard. malloc() uses ...", as `malloc' is one C name and
`Malloc' is a different C name, i.e. if a (C name whose first letter is
lowercase) is at the start of an English sentence, to avoid confusion its
first letter should stay lowercase despite spelling conventions.