Finding typos using codespell

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Tue Apr 19 12:40:01 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:15:00PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> There's a new tool that can be used to find spelling mistakes in code: codespell 
> from http://www.politreco.com has already been used to find mistakes in both 
> Linux and LLVM. I ran it on sys/ and it found lots of potential typos - the 
> full diff (which I know does contain some incorrect changes) can be found at 
> http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/codespell_sys.diff .

interesting :)
it finds typos in comments, i guess, not code bugs ?

cheers
luigi


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