Re: [MiNT] gcc 4.2.2 patch

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:12:13 , J F Lemaire <jflemaire@skynet.be> wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote:
> > Quoting Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>:
> > > p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk writes:
> > >> Quoting Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>:
> > >>> If you want a different name just specify it explicitly via
> > >>> --build/--host/--target.  There is nothing wrong with putting the
> > >>> release in the canonical name.
> > >>
> > >> Completely off-topic but the word "canonical" is used in American
> > >> software literature and I have never worked out what they think it
> > >> means.
>
> > > Both regular and accepted fits quite well here.
> >
> > If that is what they mean then it doesn't add much to the meaning
> > of the sentences. It may as well be left out.
> >
> > Sorry, I am one of those English pedants ;-) I'll go back to sleep.
>
> Look up the Jargon file or foldoc for such computer-specific
> definitions. You'll get your answer.

However that would be an American definition, in all likelihood,
and not an English one.

None of the the guys in the office know what it means, we just
ignore it.