On 13 June 2010 00:06, Andrew Morgan ziltro@ziltro.com wrote:
On 12/06/10 22:28, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 12.06.2010 22:52, Paul Menzel wrote:
- * Bit 8-31 of this register are apparently don't care, and if this
- * Bit 8-31 of this register apparently don't care, and if this
"don't care" is used as a compound adjective and the verb in the compound adjective is ignored in that case. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t-care_(logic) for details. It is possible to improve readability slightly with the following variant:
Bit 8-31 of this register are apparently don't-care bits, and...
I think just saying:
* Bits 8-31 of this register are apparently don't care, ...
should be enough. Just use the plural as a range of bits is being specified.
Attached patch does just that, and fixes a missing comma on the following line.
Not sure if this is really better, and we probably should ask a native speaker who works with hardware logic.
I'm not a native speaker, but English is my second language :P
I would be tempted to put: are "don't care" with the quotes, if it is quoting the datasheet?
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Andrew.
I don't think that's necessary.
Signed-off-by: David Borg borg.db@gmail.com Acked-by: David Borg borg.db@gmail.com (trivial)