Corrections to spelling and grammatical errors.

Extracted from patch submitted by Lajos Veres in RT #123693.

diff --git a/win32/vdir.h b/win32/vdir.h
index a4186a1..42c306b 100644 (file)
--- a/win32/vdir.h
+++ b/win32/vdir.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ protected:
     {
        char *ptr = dirTableA[index];
        if (!ptr) {
-           /* simulate the existance of this drive */
+           /* simulate the existence of this drive */
            ptr = szLocalBufferA;
            ptr[0] = 'A' + index;
            ptr[1] = ':';
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ protected:
     {
        WCHAR *ptr = dirTableW[index];
        if (!ptr) {
-           /* simulate the existance of this drive */
+           /* simulate the existence of this drive */
            ptr = szLocalBufferW;
            ptr[0] = 'A' + index;
            ptr[1] = ':';

diff --git a/win32/vmem.h b/win32/vmem.h
index d691635..c662887 100644 (file)
--- a/win32/vmem.h
+++ b/win32/vmem.h
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ long VMem::AddRef(void)
  * is freed, therefore space needs to be reserved for them.  Thus, the minimum
  * block size (not counting the tags) is 8 bytes.
  *
- * Since memory allocation may occur on a single threaded, explict locks are not
+ * Since memory allocation may occur on a single threaded, explicit locks are not
  * provided.
  * 
  */
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ int VMem::HeapAdd(void* p, size_t size
     , BOOL bBigBlock
 #endif
     )
-{   /* if the block can be succesfully added to the heap, returns 0; otherwise -1. */
+{   /* if the block can be successfully added to the heap, returns 0; otherwise -1. */
     int index;
 
     /* Check size, then round size down to next long word boundary. */

diff --git a/win32/win32.c b/win32/win32.c
index 1510805..ebb2b19 100644 (file)
--- a/win32/win32.c
+++ b/win32/win32.c
@@ -2142,7 +2142,7 @@ do_raise(pTHX_ int sig)
            }
        }
     }
-    /* Tell caller to exit thread/process as approriate */
+    /* Tell caller to exit thread/process as appropriate */
     return 1;
 }
 
@@ -2228,7 +2228,7 @@ win32_msgwait(pTHX_ DWORD count, LPHANDLE handles, DWORD timeout, LPDWORD result
      * This scenario can only be created if the timespan from the return of
      * MsgWaitForMultipleObjects to GetSystemTimeAsFileTime exceeds 1 ms. To
      * generate the scenario, manual breakpoints in a C debugger are required,
-     * or a context switch occured in win32_async_check in PeekMessage, or random
+     * or a context switch occurred in win32_async_check in PeekMessage, or random
      * messages are delivered to the *thread* message queue of the Perl thread
      * from another process (msctf.dll doing IPC among its instances, VS debugger
      * causes msctf.dll to be loaded into Perl by kernel), see [perl #33096].

diff --git a/win32/win32.h b/win32/win32.h
index aa6992e..657b008 100644 (file)
--- a/win32/win32.h
+++ b/win32/win32.h
@@ -541,12 +541,12 @@ typedef struct {
     char pipech;    /* one char buffer for handles opened on pipes */
     int lockinitflag;
     CRITICAL_SECTION lock;
-/* this struct defintion breaks ABI compatibility with
+/* this struct definition breaks ABI compatibility with
  * not using, cl.exe's native VS version specitfic CRT. */
 #  if _MSC_VER >= 1400 && _MSC_VER < 1500
 #    error "This ioinfo struct is incomplete for Visual C 2005"
 #  endif
-/* VC 2005 CRT has atleast 3 different definitions of this struct based on the
+/* VC 2005 CRT has at least 3 different definitions of this struct based on the
  * CRT DLL's build number. */
 #  if _MSC_VER >= 1500
 #    ifndef _SAFECRT_IMPL

diff --git a/win32/wince.c b/win32/wince.c
index 271df2b..61eeecb 100644 (file)
--- a/win32/wince.c
+++ b/win32/wince.c
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ do_raise(pTHX_ int sig)
            }
        }
     }
-    /* Tell caller to exit thread/process as approriate */
+    /* Tell caller to exit thread/process as appropriate */
     return 1;
 }