search

riscv / riscv-j-extension

Working Draft of the RISC-V J Extension Specification
https://jira.riscv.org/browse/RVG-128
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
159 stars 18 forks source link

Zjpm: nit on wording - Replace canonicity with canonicality #19

Closed deepak0414 closed 1 year ago

deepak0414 commented 1 year ago

I am not sure if canonicity is actual word. I believe canonicality what is meant here.

martinmaas commented 1 year ago

Good point – both words seem to be in use, but "canonicity" seems to be much more common (e.g., Google has ~900k hits for "canonicity" but only ~11k hits for "canonicality"). Merriam Webster [1] only has canonicity, Wiktionary [2] has both. From what I can tell, they are synonyms. Since "canonicity" seems more widely used, I would lean towards this one, but do not have a strong opinion either way.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canonicity [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canonicality

pdonahue-ventana commented 1 year ago

Reaching for my bookshelf, I checked my 1929 Funk & Wagnalls dictionary, my 1985 American Heritage dictionary, and my 2001 Random House dictionary. All three only have "canonicity" so I think that word is canonical (I couldn't help myself). Perhaps this is a US vs. UK thing, but none of them had a "Chiefly Brit." entry for canonicality as they do for other British words/spellings.

deepak0414 commented 1 year ago

Interestingly risc-v privileged spec never mentions use of word 'canonical' for treatment of high bits. Although unpriv spec uses the word mostly for topics related to NaN

I am fine either ways. It was a nit. So feel free to close this one.

martinmaas commented 1 year ago

Sounds good. I will close for now, but we can revisit if it comes up again in AR or public review.