Fix typos.

diff --git a/posix/regex.c b/posix/regex.c
index 2a5737d..2f3a9b5 100644 (file)
--- a/posix/regex.c
+++ b/posix/regex.c
@@ -6008,7 +6008,7 @@ regcomp (preg, pattern, cflags)
         buffer.  */
       if (re_compile_fastmap (preg) == -2)
        {
-         /* Some error occured while computing the fastmap, just forget
+         /* Some error occurred while computing the fastmap, just forget
             about it.  */
          free (preg->fastmap);
          preg->fastmap = NULL;

diff --git a/scripts/test-installation.pl b/scripts/test-installation.pl
index b54a23e..a68edc8 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/test-installation.pl
+++ b/scripts/test-installation.pl
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ sub usage {
 sub installation_problem {
   print "The script has found some problems with your installation!\n";
   print "Please read the FAQ and the README file and check the following:\n";
-  print "- Did you change the gcc specs file (neccessary after upgrading from\n";
+  print "- Did you change the gcc specs file (necessary after upgrading from\n";
   print "  Linux libc5)?\n";
   print "- Are there any symbolic links of the form libXXX.so to old libraries?\n";
   print "  Links like libm.so -> libm.so.5 (where libm.so.5 is an old library) are wrong,\n";

diff --git a/stdlib/canonicalize.c b/stdlib/canonicalize.c
index c4edb48..762f161 100644 (file)
--- a/stdlib/canonicalize.c
+++ b/stdlib/canonicalize.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ canonicalize (const char *name, char *resolved)
     {
       /* As per Single Unix Specification V2 we must return an error if
         either parameter is a null pointer.  We extend this to allow
-        the RESOLVED parameter be NULL in case the we are expected to
+        the RESOLVED parameter to be NULL in case the we are expected to
         allocate the room for the return value.  */
       __set_errno (EINVAL);
       return NULL;

diff --git a/stdlib/fmtmsg.c b/stdlib/fmtmsg.c
index 038c2ae..126132d 100644 (file)
--- a/stdlib/fmtmsg.c
+++ b/stdlib/fmtmsg.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ fmtmsg (long int classification, const char *label, int severity,
                   do_action ? action : "",
                   do_action && do_tag ? " " : "",
                   do_tag ? tag : "") == EOF)
-       /* Oh, oh.  An error occured during the output.  */
+       /* Oh, oh.  An error occurred during the output.  */
        result = MM_NOMSG;
     }
 

diff --git a/string/argz-replace.c b/string/argz-replace.c
index aeec5f5..cc18076 100644 (file)
--- a/string/argz-replace.c
+++ b/string/argz-replace.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ str_append (char **to, size_t *to_len, const char *buf, const size_t buf_len)
     }
 }
 
-/* Replace any occurances of the string STR in ARGZ with WITH, reallocating
+/* Replace any occurrences of the string STR in ARGZ with WITH, reallocating
    ARGZ as necessary.  If REPLACE_COUNT is non-zero, *REPLACE_COUNT will be
    incremented by number of replacements performed.  */
 error_t

diff --git a/string/argz.h b/string/argz.h
index a90da9a..45441db 100644 (file)
--- a/string/argz.h
+++ b/string/argz.h
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ extern error_t argz_insert (char **__restrict __argz,
                            char *__restrict __before,
                            __const char *__restrict __entry) __THROW;
 
-/* Replace any occurances of the string STR in ARGZ with WITH, reallocating
+/* Replace any occurrences of the string STR in ARGZ with WITH, reallocating
    ARGZ as necessary.  If REPLACE_COUNT is non-zero, *REPLACE_COUNT will be
    incremented by number of replacements performed.  */
 extern error_t __argz_replace (char **__restrict __argz,

diff --git a/string/bits/string2.h b/string/bits/string2.h
index f8c32e3..b42987e 100644 (file)
--- a/string/bits/string2.h
+++ b/string/bits/string2.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
    to make sure we don't get redefinitions.
 
    We must use here macros instead of inline functions since the
-   trick won't work with the later.  */
+   trick won't work with the latter.  */
 
 #ifndef __STRING_INLINE
 # ifdef __cplusplus

diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/glob.c b/sysdeps/generic/glob.c
index e52afc8..0fe48b0 100644 (file)
--- a/sysdeps/generic/glob.c
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/glob.c
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ glob (pattern, flags, errfunc, pglob)
 #endif /* __MSDOS__ || WINDOWS32 */
   if (filename == NULL)
     {
-      /* This can mean two things: a simple name or "~name".  The later
+      /* This can mean two things: a simple name or "~name".  The latter
         case is nothing but a notation for a directory.  */
       if ((flags & (GLOB_TILDE|GLOB_TILDE_CHECK)) && pattern[0] == '~')
        {

diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/setenv.c b/sysdeps/generic/setenv.c
index 29fc60c..ae19721 100644 (file)
--- a/sysdeps/generic/setenv.c
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/setenv.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ __libc_lock_define_initialized (static, envlock)
 #endif
 
 /* In the GNU C library implementation we try to be more clever and
-   allow arbitrary many changes of the environment given that the used
+   allow arbitrarily many changes of the environment given that the used
    values are from a small set.  Outside glibc this will eat up all
    memory after a while.  */
 #if defined _LIBC || (defined HAVE_SEARCH_H && defined HAVE_TSEARCH \

diff --git a/sysdeps/i386/memcmp.S b/sysdeps/i386/memcmp.S
index 5ad8b6e..723b502 100644 (file)
--- a/sysdeps/i386/memcmp.S
+++ b/sysdeps/i386/memcmp.S
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ENTRY (memcmp)
                                   or not depending on last subtraction.  */
 
        /* At this point %eax == 0, if the byte of block #1 was bigger, and
-          0xffffffff if the last byte of block #2 was bigger.  The later
+          0xffffffff if the last byte of block #2 was bigger.  The latter
           case is already correct but the former needs a little adjustment.
           Note that the following operation does not change 0xffffffff.  */
        orb $1, %al             /* Change 0 to 1.  */

diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/waitid.c b/sysdeps/posix/waitid.c
index 7bb3bbe..0459bce 100644 (file)
--- a/sysdeps/posix/waitid.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/waitid.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ waitid (idtype, id, infop, options)
     {
       /* The WHOHANG bit in OPTIONS is set and there are children available
         but none has a status for us.  The XPG docs do not mention this
-        case so we clear the `siginfo_t' struct and return succesfully.  */
+        case so we clear the `siginfo_t' struct and return successfully.  */
       infop->si_signo = 0;
       infop->si_code = 0;
       return 0;

diff --git a/time/tzset.c b/time/tzset.c
index db08a47..e8a3e92 100644 (file)
--- a/time/tzset.c
+++ b/time/tzset.c
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ tz_compute (tm)
       || ! compute_change (&tz_rules[1], 1900 + tm->tm_year))
     return 0;
   /* We have to distinguish between northern and southern hemisphere.
-     For the later the daylight saving time ends in the next year.
+     For the latter the daylight saving time ends in the next year.
      It is easier to detect this after first computing the time for the
      wrong year since now we simply can compare the times to switch.  */
   if (tz_rules[0].change > tz_rules[1].change