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CONTRIBUTING

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ may also work, but some older versions are known not to.
 
 Please execute
     make checkstyle MODE=full UPDATE=true
-on your code and verify correctness of the reformating (if any) before
+on your code and verify correctness of the reformatting (if any) before
 submitting a pull request.
 
 Testing:
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ makes you think of a small project that you want to tackle:  excellent.)
 Pull requests which add tests for existing features or which enhance
 existing tests are actively encouraged.
 The lcov maintainers are painfully aware that the code coverage of the
-lcov test suite on the lcov code base is embarassingly low.
+lcov test suite on the lcov code base is embarrassingly low.
 
 Note that existing tests and/or test drivers may themselves need to be
 modified in order to work correctly on other platforms and with other
@@ -162,4 +162,4 @@ With your Signed-off-by, you certify the rules stated in section
 
 [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/lcov
 [2] https://gcc.gnu.org
-[3] https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy
+[3] https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy

Makefile

@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ endif
 
 release:
 	@if [ "$(origin VERSION)" != "command line" ] ; then echo "Please specify new version number, e.g. VERSION=1.16" >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
-	@if [ -n "$$(git status --porcelain 2>&1)" ] ; then echo "The repository contains uncommited changes" >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
+	@if [ -n "$$(git status --porcelain 2>&1)" ] ; then echo "The repository contains uncommitted changes" >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
 	@if [ -n "$$(git tag -l v$(VERSION))" ] ; then echo "A tag for the specified version already exists (v$(VERSION))" >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
 	@echo "Preparing release tag for version $(VERSION)"
 	git checkout master

README

@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Point the web browser of your choice to the resulting index.html file.
          $ lcov --directory path/to/my/testcase --capture --output-file app.info
 
        Note that runtime coverage data exists only after the application has
-       been started and stopped at least once. Otherwise, no data wil be found
+       been started and stopped at least once. Otherwise, no data will be found
        and  lcov will abort with an error mentioning that there are no data/.gcda
        files.
 
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ New features and capabilities fall into 7 major categories:
 
      Other options are used to focus on or to exclude certain sections
      of code, as well as to do regexp replacement of file names - possibly
-     using case-insensitve comparison.
+     using case-insensitive comparison.
      (Path munging is useful primarily when the build structure does
      not exactly match the layout in your revision control system; this
      is common in large projects with reusable components.)
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ New features and capabilities fall into 7 major categories:
      In general, this provides speedup that is nearly linear in the number
      of cores.
      There is also an option to throttle parallelism to not exceed peak
-     memory consumption contraints, as well as options to enable simple
+     memory consumption constraints, as well as options to enable simple
      profile data collection - so you can see where time is going and
      thus to hint at potential optimizations.  The 'spreadsheet.py'
      script can be used to view generated profile data.

bin/genhtml

@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ sub findOwnerList
     #  where lineCovData = [missedCount, totalCount]
     #        branchCovData = [missed, total] or undef if not enabled
     #        functionCov = [missed, total] or undef if not enabled
-    #   - sorted in decending order number of missed lines
+    #   - sorted in descending order number of missed lines
     my ($self, $all) = @_;
 
     my @owners;
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ sub findOwnerList
     # return [ [owner, lineCovData, branchCovData]] for each owner
     #  where lineCovData = [missedCount, totalCount, callback]
     #        branchCovData = [missed, total, callback] or undef if not enabled
-    #   - sorted in decending order number of missed lines
+    #   - sorted in descending order number of missed lines
     return $self->summary()->findOwnerList($all);
 }
 
@@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ sub findFileList
     #  where lineCovData = [missedCount, totalCount, OwnerDetailCallback]
     #        branchCovData = [missed, total, dateDetailCallback]
     #                         or undef if not enabled
-    #   - sorted in decending order number of missed lines
+    #   - sorted in descending order number of missed lines
     my $dirSummary = $self->[1];
     my $owner      = $self->[0];
     my @files;
@@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ sub findFileList
     #  where lineCovData = [missedCount, totalCount, OwnerDetailCallback]
     #        branchCovData = [missed, total, dateDetailCallback]
     #                         or undef if not enabled
-    #   - sorted in decending order number of missed lines
+    #   - sorted in descending order number of missed lines
     my $dirSummary = $self->[2];
     my $ageval     = $self->[1];
     my @files;
@@ -2075,7 +2075,7 @@ sub new
     # $type in ('insert', 'equal', 'delete')
     my $self = [$type, undef, undef,
                 ['UNK', undef, undef],    # line coverage data
-                [],                       # branch coverge data
+                [],                       # branch coverage data
                 []
     ];    # function coverage
     bless $self, $class;
@@ -2200,7 +2200,7 @@ sub _mergeBranchData
 
             my $c = $current->getBlock($branchId);
             my $d = $branchData->getBlock($branchId);
-            # handle case of inconsisent branch data
+            # handle case of inconsistent branch data
             my $nc = scalar(@$c);
             my $nd = scalar(@$d);
             if ($nc != $nd) {
@@ -2487,7 +2487,7 @@ sub _findLineData
         }
         $linedata->lineNo('base', $base_lineNo);
     } else {
-        # nothing walks the keylist so a prefix is sufficient to distiguish
+        # nothing walks the keylist so a prefix is sufficient to distinguish
         # records that should be summarized but not displayed
         my $dline = "<<<" . $base_lineNo;
         if (!exists($lineDataMap->{$dline})) {
@@ -3355,7 +3355,7 @@ sub _read_udiff
                 $key = lc($key) if $lcovutil::case_insensitive;
                 if (exists($self->[UNCHANGED]->{$key})) {
                     # unchanged entry flag value should be 1
-                    die("$diff_file:$.:  %key already in linemap - marked unchangd"
+                    die("$diff_file:$.:  %key already in linemap - marked unchanged"
                             . ($file eq $key ? '' : " (substituted '$file')"))
                         unless $self->[UNCHANGED]->{$key};
                     lcovutil::ignorable_error($lcovutil::ERROR_FORMAT,
@@ -5408,7 +5408,7 @@ our $current_date = get_date_string(undef);
 
 our @info_filenames;      # List of .info files to use as data source
 our $header_title;        # Title at top of HTML report page (above table)
-our $footer;              # String at bootom of HTML report page
+our $footer;              # String at bottom of HTML report page
 our $test_title;          # Title for output as written to each page header
 our $output_directory;    # Name of directory in which to store output
 our @base_filenames;      # Optional: names of files containing baseline data
@@ -5423,7 +5423,7 @@ our $show_details;        # If set, generate detailed directory view
 our $no_prefix;           # If set, do not remove filename prefix
 our $show_tla;            # categorize coverage data (or not)
 our $show_functionProportions = 0
-    ; # show proportion of lines/branches containted in the function whihc are hit
+    ; # show proportion of lines/branches contained in the function which are hit
 our $show_hitTotalCol;    # include the 'hit' or 'missed' total count in tables
                           #   - this is part of the 'legacy' view
     #   - also enabled when full differential categories are used
@@ -5569,7 +5569,7 @@ my %genhtml_options = (
                  'synthesize-missing'   => \$synthesizeMissingFile,
                  # if 'show-owners' is set: generate the owner table
                  #    if it is passed a value: show all the owners,
-                 #    regardless of whether thay have uncovered code or not
+                 #    regardless of whether they have uncovered code or not
                  'show-owners:s'     => \$show_ownerBins,
                  'show-noncode'      => \$show_nonCodeOwners,
                  'show-zero-columns' => \$show_zeroTlaColumns,
@@ -5662,7 +5662,7 @@ if ($show_tla &&
         !defined($diff_filename))
 ) {
     # no baseline - so not a differential report.
-    #  modify some settings to gnerate corresponding RTL code.
+    #  modify some settings to generate corresponding RTL code.
     $use_legacyLabels = 1;
     SummaryInfo::noBaseline();
 } else {
@@ -5907,7 +5907,7 @@ if (0 == $exit_status) {
 if (0 == $exit_status && @SummaryInfo::coverageCriteriaScript) {
     # print the criteria summary to stdout:
     #   all criteria fails + any non-empty messages
-    # In addtion:  print fails to stderr
+    # In addition:  print fails to stderr
     # This way:  Jenkins script can log failure if stderr is not empty
     my $leader = '';
     if ($SummaryInfo::coverageCriteriaStatus != 0) {
@@ -6126,7 +6126,7 @@ sub print_overall_rate($$$$$)
 # Generate a set of HTML pages from contents of .info file INFO_FILENAME.
 # Files will be written to the current directory. If provided, test case
 # descriptions will be read from .tests file TEST_FILENAME and included
-# in ouput.
+# in output.
 #
 # Die on error.
 #
@@ -7181,7 +7181,7 @@ sub write_css_file()
     my $ownerCovHi      = "#COLOR_18";    # light green
     my $ownerCovMed     = "#COLOR_19";    # light yellow
     my $ownerCovLo      = "#COLOR_20";    # lighter red
-        # use same background color as file entry unless in hiearchical report
+        # use same background color as file entry unless in hierarchical report
     my $directoryBackground = $main::hierarchical ? '#COLOR_18' : '#COLOR_06';
     my $css_data            = ($_ = <<"END_OF_CSS")
         /* All views: initial background and text color */
@@ -7857,7 +7857,7 @@ END_OF_CSS
             my $align = $elem eq 'td' ? "right" : "left";
             $css_data .= ($_ = <<"END_OF_SPAN")
 
-        /* Source code view/table entry backround: format for lines classified as "$title" */
+        /* Source code view/table entry background: format for lines classified as "$title" */
         $elem.tla$tla
         {
           text-align: $align;
@@ -7916,7 +7916,7 @@ END_OF_DATE_SPAN
 
     print(CSS_HANDLE $css_data);
 
-    close(CSS_HANDLE) or die("unable to close CSS handel: $!\n");
+    close(CSS_HANDLE) or die("unable to close CSS handle: $!\n");
 }
 
 #
@@ -8165,7 +8165,7 @@ END_OF_HTML
 END_OF_HTML
     } else {
         my $t = ucfirst($primary_key);
-        # a bit of a hack...just subtitute the primary key and related
+        # a bit of a hack...just substitute the primary key and related
         #   strings into the 'file heading' link - so we display the
         #   'sort' widget
         if ($primary_key eq 'owner' &&

bin/geninfo

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ our %COMPAT_NAME_TO_VALUE = ("off"  => $COMPAT_VALUE_OFF,
                              "on"   => $COMPAT_VALUE_ON,
                              "auto" => $COMPAT_VALUE_AUTO,);
 
-# Compatiblity modes
+# Compatibility modes
 our $COMPAT_MODE_LIBTOOL   = 1 << 0;
 our $COMPAT_MODE_HAMMER    = 1 << 1;
 our $COMPAT_MODE_SPLIT_CRC = 1 << 2;
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ OPTIONS
       --erase-functions REGEXP      Exclude data for functions matching REGEXP
       --omit-lines REGEXP           Ignore data in lines matching REGEXP
       --forget-test-names           Merge data for all tests names
-      --version-script SCRIPTNAME   Call script to find revison control version
+      --version-script SCRIPTNAME   Call script to find revision control version
                                     ID of source file
       --resolve-script SCRIPTNAME Call script to find source file frpm path
   -j, --parallel [N]                Use parallel processing with at most N jobs
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ sub gen_info(@)
             }
         }
         # Need to balance time in child vs. time to merge child data -
-        #   - if we hav too many children, then they finish and wait in the
+        #   - if we have too many children, then they finish and wait in the
         #     queue to be merged.
         #   - if we have too few, then the merge time in child gets long
         # build up in set to 80% of
@@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ sub process_intermediate($$$$)
         }
     } else {
         # if .gcda and .gcno files are in the same directory, then simply
-        #   processs in place - otherwise, link the .gcda and .gcno files
+        #   process in place - otherwise, link the .gcda and .gcno files
         #   into tempdir and run from here
         if (dirname($filename) eq dirname($gcno_file)) {
             # Process data file in place

bin/genpng

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ sub gen_png($$$$$@)
     # Define colors
     # overview->colorAllocate(red, green, blue)
     if ($dark_mode) {
-        # just reverse foregrond and background
+        # just reverse foreground and background
         #  there is probably a better color scheme than this.
         $col_plain_text =
             $overview->colorAllocate(0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa);    # light grey

bin/lcov

@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ OPERATION
                                   data (requires --add-tracefile)
       --map-functions             List tracefiles with non-zero coverage for
                                   each function (requires --add-tracefile)
-     --intersect PATTERN          Set interection with tracefiles matching
+     --intersect PATTERN          Set intersection with tracefiles matching
                                   glob PATTERN
      --subtract PATTERN           Set difference with tracefiles matching
                                   glob PATTERN
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ OPTIONS
       --forget-test-names         Merge data for all tests names
       --fail-under-lines MIN      Exit with a status of 1 if the total line
                                   coverage is less than MIN (summary option)
-      --version-script SCRIPTNAME Call script to find revison control version
+      --version-script SCRIPTNAME Call script to find revision control version
                                   ID of source file
       --resolve-script SCRIPTNAME Call script to find source file frpm path
   -j, --parallel [NUM]            Use parallel processing with at most NUM jobs

bin/perl2lcov

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ foreach my $db (@ARGV) {
                     # However, this doesn't quite work because the truth
                     #   table computed by Devel::Cover is sometimes ordered
                     #   with the dependent clause after the independent
-                    #   one - and soemtimes the opposite.
+                    #   one - and sometimes the opposite.
                     # For the moment:  punt when we don't grok
                     foreach my $block (@br) {
                         my $counts     = $block->[0];

example/README

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ and point a web browser into the resulting reports:
 
 Default view:
 
-  - Point your brower to
+  - Point your browser to
       output/index.html
 
 Hierarchical view:

example/example_mod.c

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  *  example_mod.c
  *
  * Identical behaviour to 'example.c' - but with some trivial code changes
- * (including this change to commment section) - to create a few differences,
+ * (including this change to comment section) - to create a few differences,
  * for differential coverage report example.
  * 
  */

lcovrc

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ genhtml_med_limit = 75
 
 # Ignore some errors during geninfo/lcov/genhtml processing - comma-separated
 # string.  Same as using "--ignore-errors a,b,c" command line option.
-# See man pages for list of ignorable messsages
+# See man pages for list of ignorable messages
 #ignore_errors = empty,mismatch
 
 # Stop emitting message after this number have been printed
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ max_message_count = 100
 # (comma-separated list)
 #c_file_extensions = h,c,i,C,H,I,cpp,hpp,icc,cc,hh,cxx,hxx
 
-# maxmimum number of lines to look at, when filtering bogus branch expressions
+# maximum number of lines to look at, when filtering bogus branch expressions
 #filter_lookahead = 5
 
 # if nonzero, bitwise operators '|', '&', '~' indicate conditional expressions
@@ -88,10 +88,10 @@ genhtml_line_field_width = 12
 # Width of branch coverage field in source code view
 genhtml_branch_field_width = 16
 
-# width of 'owner' field in source code veiw - default is 20
+# width of 'owner' field in source code view - default is 20
 #genhtml_owner_field_width = 20
 
-# width of 'age' field in source code veiw - default is 5
+# width of 'age' field in source code view - default is 5
 #genhtml_age_field_width = 5
 
 # Width of overview image (used by --frames option of genhtml)
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ genhtml_desc_html=0
 # and have attribute '"unexecuted_blocks": true'
 #geninfo_unexecuted_blocks = 0
 
-# Specify compatiblity modes (same as --compat option of geninfo).
+# Specify compatibility modes (same as --compat option of geninfo).
 #geninfo_compat = libtool=on, hammer=auto, split_crc=auto
 
 # Adjust path to source files by removing or changing path components that
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ branch_coverage = 0
 #genhtml_annotate_script = path_to_my_executable
 
 # specify the annotation popup that will appear if user hovers over source code
-# set to empy to elide tooltip
+# set to empty to elide tooltip
 # Substitutions:
 #  %d:  line number
 #  %C:  commit ID (from annotate callback - see --anotate-script entry in
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ branch_coverage = 0
 #genhtml_criteria_script = path_to_my_executable
 
 # specify whether you want date and/or owner information passed to your criteria
-# callback - in addition to summary information, which is always retuned
+# callback - in addition to summary information, which is always returned
 #criteria_callback_data = date,owner
 
 # specify when the criteria callback will be executed
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ lcov_json_module = auto
 # override line default line exclusion regexp
 #lcov_excl_line = LCOV_EXCL_LINE
 
-# overide branch exclusion regexp
+# override branch exclusion regexp
 #lcov_excl_br_line = LCOV_EXCL_BR_LINE
 
 # override exception branch exclusion regexp