Big assorted spelling fixes

[stockfish] / src / misc.cpp

diff --git a/src/misc.cpp b/src/misc.cpp
index b9a802ad3c3bdb4ccb2afe2abf06f2841f41fd8c..08cbc919807dfa0e4d6d0308634e0841edfa2c7a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/misc.cpp
+++ b/src/misc.cpp
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ void dbg_print() {
 
 /// Our fancy logging facility. The trick here is to replace cin.rdbuf() and
 /// cout.rdbuf() with two Tie objects that tie cin and cout to a file stream. We
-/// can toggle the logging of std::cout and std:cin at runtime while preserving
+/// can toggle the logging of std::cout and std:cin at runtime whilst preserving
 /// usual i/o functionality and without changing a single line of code!
 /// Idea from http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/msg/1d941c0f26ea0d81
 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ public:
 };
 
 
-/// Used to serialize access to std::cout to avoid multiple threads to write at
+/// Used to serialize access to std::cout to avoid multiple threads writing at
 /// the same time.
 
 std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, SyncCout sc) {
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, SyncCout sc) {
 void start_logger(bool b) { Logger::start(b); }
 
 
-/// timed_wait() waits for msec milliseconds. It is mainly an helper to wrap
-/// conversion from milliseconds to struct timespec, as used by pthreads.
+/// timed_wait() waits for msec milliseconds. It is mainly a helper to wrap
+/// the conversion from milliseconds to struct timespec, as used by pthreads.
 
 void timed_wait(WaitCondition& sleepCond, Lock& sleepLock, int msec) {
 
@@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ void timed_wait(WaitCondition& sleepCond, Lock& sleepLock, int msec) {
 }
 
 
-/// prefetch() preloads the given address in L1/L2 cache. This is a non
-/// blocking function and do not stalls the CPU waiting for data to be
-/// loaded from memory, that can be quite slow.
+/// prefetch() preloads the given address in L1/L2 cache. This is a non-blocking
+/// function that doesn't stall the CPU waiting for data to be loaded from memory,
+/// which can be quite slow.
 #ifdef NO_PREFETCH
 
 void prefetch(char*) {}
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ void prefetch(char*) {}
 void prefetch(char* addr) {
 
 #  if defined(__INTEL_COMPILER)
-   // This hack prevents prefetches to be optimized away by
-   // Intel compiler. Both MSVC and gcc seems not affected.
+   // This hack prevents prefetches from being optimized away by
+   // Intel compiler. Both MSVC and gcc seem not be affected by this.
    __asm__ ("");
 #  endif