Merge pull request #200 from phansch/fix_typos

Fix typos

Author: nikomatsakis

src/appendix/glossary.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ codegen unit            |  when we produce LLVM IR, we group the Rust code into
 completeness            |  completeness is a technical term in type theory. Completeness means that every type-safe program also type-checks. Having both soundness and completeness is very hard, and usually soundness is more important. (see "soundness").
 control-flow graph      |  a representation of the control-flow of a program; see [the background chapter for more](./appendix/background.html#cfg)
 CTFE                    |  Compile-Time Function Evaluation. This is the ability of the compiler to evaluate `const fn`s at compile time. This is part of the compiler's constant evaluation system. ([see more](./const-eval.html))
-cx                      |  we tend to use "cx" as an abbrevation for context. See also `tcx`, `infcx`, etc.
+cx                      |  we tend to use "cx" as an abbreviation for context. See also `tcx`, `infcx`, etc.
 DAG                     |  a directed acyclic graph is used during compilation to keep track of dependencies between queries. ([see more](incremental-compilation.html))
 data-flow analysis      |  a static analysis that figures out what properties are true at each point in the control-flow of a program; see [the background chapter for more](./appendix/background.html#dataflow)
 DefId                   |  an index identifying a definition (see `librustc/hir/def_id.rs`). Uniquely identifies a `DefPath`.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ inference variable      |  when doing type or region inference, an "inference va
 infcx                   |  the inference context (see `librustc/infer`)
 IR                      |  Intermediate Representation. A general term in compilers. During compilation, the code is transformed from raw source (ASCII text) to various IRs. In Rust, these are primarily HIR, MIR, and LLVM IR. Each IR is well-suited for some set of computations. For example, MIR is well-suited for the borrow checker, and LLVM IR is well-suited for codegen because LLVM accepts it.
 local crate             |  the crate currently being compiled.
-LTO                     |  Link-Time Optimizations. A set of optimizations offered by LLVM that occur just before the final binary is linked. These include optmizations like removing functions that are never used in the final program, for example. _ThinLTO_ is a variant of LTO that aims to be a bit more scalable and efficient, but possibly sacrifices some optimizations. You may also read issues in the Rust repo about "FatLTO", which is the loving nickname given to non-Thin LTO. LLVM documentation: [here][lto] and [here][thinlto]
+LTO                     |  Link-Time Optimizations. A set of optimizations offered by LLVM that occur just before the final binary is linked. These include optimizations like removing functions that are never used in the final program, for example. _ThinLTO_ is a variant of LTO that aims to be a bit more scalable and efficient, but possibly sacrifices some optimizations. You may also read issues in the Rust repo about "FatLTO", which is the loving nickname given to non-Thin LTO. LLVM documentation: [here][lto] and [here][thinlto]
 [LLVM]                  |  (actually not an acronym :P) an open-source compiler backend. It accepts LLVM IR and outputs native binaries. Various languages (e.g. Rust) can then implement a compiler front-end that output LLVM IR and use LLVM to compile to all the platforms LLVM supports.
 MIR                     |  the Mid-level IR that is created after type-checking for use by borrowck and codegen ([see more](./mir/index.html))
 miri                    |  an interpreter for MIR used for constant evaluation ([see more](./miri.html))

src/borrow_check/region_inference.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The MIR-based region analysis consists of two major functions:
     won't be doing lexical region inference at all.
 - `compute_regions`, invoked second: this is given as argument the
   results of move analysis. It has the job of computing values for all
-  the inference variabes that `replace_regions_in_mir` introduced.
+  the inference variables that `replace_regions_in_mir` introduced.
   - To do that, it first runs the [MIR type checker](#mirtypeck). This
     is basically a normal type-checker but specialized to MIR, which
     is much simpler than full Rust of course. Running the MIR type
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ then we have this constraint `V2: V3`, so we wind up having to enlarge
 V2 in U2 = {skol(1), skol(2)}
 ```
 
-Now contraint propagation is done, but when we check the outlives
+Now constraint propagation is done, but when we check the outlives
 relationships, we find that `V2` includes this new element `skol(1)`,
 so we report an error.
 

src/codegen.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ generates an executable binary. rustc uses LLVM for code generation.
 
 ## What is LLVM?
 
-All of the preceeding chapters of this guide have one thing in common: we never
+All of the preceding chapters of this guide have one thing in common: we never
 generated any executable machine code at all! With this chapter, all of that
 changes.
 
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ many compiler projects, including the `clang` C compiler and our beloved
 
 LLVM's "format `X`" is called LLVM IR. It is basically assembly code with
 additional low-level types and annotations added. These annotations are helpful
-for doing optimizations on the LLVM IR and outputed machine code. The end
+for doing optimizations on the LLVM IR and outputted machine code. The end
 result of all this is (at long last) something executable (e.g. an ELF object
 or wasm).
 
 There are a few benefits to using LLVM:
 
 - We don't have to write a whole compiler backend. This reduces implementation
-  and maintainance burden.
+  and maintenance burden.
 - We benefit from the large suite of advanced optimizations that the LLVM
   project has been collecting.
 - We automatically can compile Rust to any of the platforms for which LLVM has

src/compiletest.md

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ which make it simple to parse common patterns like simple presence or not
 attribute is defined (`has_cfg_prefix()`) and many more.  The low-level parsers
 are found near the end of the `impl Config` block; be sure to look through them
 and their associated parsers immediately above to see how they are used to
-avoid writing additional parsing code unneccessarily.
+avoid writing additional parsing code unnecessarily.
 
 As a concrete example, here is the implementation for the
 `parse_failure_status()` parser, in

src/lowering.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sanity checks in `src/librustc/hir/map/hir_id_validator.rs`:
   for you so you also get the `HirId`.
 
 If you are creating new `DefId`s, since each `DefId` needs to have a
-corresponding `NodeId`, it is adviseable to add these `NodeId`s to the
+corresponding `NodeId`, it is advisable to add these `NodeId`s to the
 `AST` so you don't have to generate new ones during lowering. This has
 the advantage of creating a way to find the `DefId` of something via its
 `NodeId`. If lowering needs this `DefId` in multiple places, you can't

src/macro-expansion.md

@@ -90,15 +90,15 @@ tokens containing the inside of the example invocation `print foo`, while `ms`
 might be the sequence of token (trees) `print $mvar:ident`.
 
 The output of the parser is a `NamedParseResult`, which indicates which of
-three cases has occured:
+three cases has occurred:
 
 - Success: `tts` matches the given matcher `ms`, and we have produced a binding
   from metavariables to the corresponding token trees.
 - Failure: `tts` does not match `ms`. This results in an error message such as
   "No rule expected token _blah_".
-- Error: some fatal error has occured _in the parser_. For example, this happens
-  if there are more than one pattern match, since that indicates the macro is
-  ambiguous.
+- Error: some fatal error has occurred _in the parser_. For example, this
+  happens if there are more than one pattern match, since that indicates
+  the macro is ambiguous.
 
 The full interface is defined [here][code_parse_int].
 
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ the macro parser. This is extremely non-intuitive and self-referential. The code
 to parse macro _definitions_ is in
 [`src/libsyntax/ext/tt/macro_rules.rs`][code_mr]. It defines the pattern for
 matching for a macro definition as `$( $lhs:tt => $rhs:tt );+`. In other words,
-a `macro_rules` defintion should have in its body at least one occurence of a
+a `macro_rules` definition should have in its body at least one occurrence of a
 token tree followed by `=>` followed by another token tree. When the compiler
 comes to a `macro_rules` definition, it uses this pattern to match the two token
 trees per rule in the definition of the macro _using the macro parser itself_.

src/rustdoc.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ does is call the `main()` that's in this crate's `lib.rs`, though.)
 
 ## Cheat sheet
 
-* Use `./x.py build --stage 1 src/libstd src/tools/rustdoc` to make a useable
+* Use `./x.py build --stage 1 src/libstd src/tools/rustdoc` to make a usable
   rustdoc you can run on other projects.
   * Add `src/libtest` to be able to use `rustdoc --test`.
   * If you've used `rustup toolchain link local /path/to/build/$TARGET/stage1`

src/tests/running.md

@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ enable it in the `config.toml`, too:
 incremental = true
 ```
 
-Note that incremental compilation will use more disk space than
-usual. If disk space is a concern for you, you might want to check the
-size of the `build` directory from time to time.
+Note that incremental compilation will use more disk space than usual.
+If disk space is a concern for you, you might want to check the size
+of the `build` directory from time to time.
 
 ## Running tests manually
 

src/traits/canonicalization.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ for<T,L,T> { ?0: Foo<'?1, ?2> }
 
 This `for<>` gives some information about each of the canonical
 variables within.  In this case, each `T` indicates a type variable,
-so `?0` and `?2` are types; the `L` indicates a lifetime varibale, so
+so `?0` and `?2` are types; the `L` indicates a lifetime variable, so
 `?1` is a lifetime. The `canonicalize` method *also* gives back a
 `CanonicalVarValues` array OV with the "original values" for each
 canonicalized variable:

src/traits/lowering-rules.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ reference the [domain goals][dg] defined in an earlier section.
 ## Notation
 
 The nonterminal `Pi` is used to mean some generic *parameter*, either a
-named lifetime like `'a` or a type paramter like `A`.
+named lifetime like `'a` or a type parameter like `A`.
 
 The nonterminal `Ai` is used to mean some generic *argument*, which
 might be a lifetime like `'a` or a type like `Vec<A>`.

src/traits/resolution.md

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ know whether an impl/where-clause applies or not – this occurs when
 the obligation contains unbound inference variables.
 
 The subroutines that decide whether a particular impl/where-clause/etc
-applies to a particular obligation are collectively refered to as the
+applies to a particular obligation are collectively referred to as the
 process of _matching_. At the moment, this amounts to
 unifying the `Self` types, but in the future we may also recursively
 consider some of the nested obligations, in the case of an impl.