+2006-08-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ * visibility.texi: Actually read and correct the grammar of the
+ sentence affected by yesterday's change.
+
2006-08-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* visibility.texi: Remove duplicate word: "pointer".
@c Documentation of gnulib module 'visibility'.
-@c Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
with @code{LD_PRELOAD}.) Whereas a call to a function for which the compiler
can assume that it is in the same shared library is just a direct "call"
instructions. Similarly for variables: A reference to a global variable
-fetches a pointer in the so-called GOT (global offset table); this pointer
-to the variable's memory. So the code to access it is two memory
+fetches a pointer in the so-called GOT (global offset table); this is a
+pointer to the variable's memory. So the code to access it is two memory
load instructions. Whereas for a variable which is known to reside in the
same shared library, it is just a direct memory access: one memory load
instruction.