auto merge of #14764 : jbcrail/rust/fix-more-comments, r=alexcrichton

src/liballoc/arc.rs

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ impl<T: Share + Send> Drop for Arc<T> {
 
         // This fence is needed to prevent reordering of use of the data and
         // deletion of the data. Because it is marked `Release`, the
-        // decreasing of the reference count sychronizes with this `Acquire`
+        // decreasing of the reference count synchronizes with this `Acquire`
         // fence. This means that use of the data happens before decreasing
         // the refernce count, which happens before this fence, which
         // happens before the deletion of the data.

src/libcore/fmt/mod.rs

@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ impl<'a> Formatter<'a> {
     }
 
     /// Runs a callback, emitting the correct padding either before or
-    /// afterwards depending on whether right or left alingment is requested.
+    /// afterwards depending on whether right or left alignment is requested.
     fn with_padding(&mut self,
                     padding: uint,
                     default: rt::Alignment,

src/libcore/result.rs

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 //! *Note: The actual definition of `Writer` uses `IoResult`, which
 //! is just a synonym for `Result<T, IoError>`.*
 //!
-//! This method doesn`t produce a value, but the write may
+//! This method doesn't produce a value, but the write may
 //! fail. It's crucial to handle the error case, and *not* write
 //! something like this:
 //!

src/libgetopts/lib.rs

@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ pub struct OptGroup {
     pub occur: Occur
 }
 
-/// Describes wether an option is given at all or has a value.
+/// Describes whether an option is given at all or has a value.
 #[deriving(Clone, PartialEq)]
 enum Optval {
     Val(String),

src/libgreen/context.rs

@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ fn initialize_call_frame(regs: &mut Registers, fptr: InitFn, arg: uint,
     regs[RUSTRT_R14] = procedure.env as uint;
     regs[RUSTRT_R15] = fptr as uint;
 
-    // These registers are picked up by the regulard context switch paths. These
+    // These registers are picked up by the regular context switch paths. These
     // will put us in "mostly the right context" except for frobbing all the
     // arguments to the right place. We have the small trampoline code inside of
     // rust_bootstrap_green_task to do that.

src/libgreen/sched.rs

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ pub struct Scheduler {
     run_anything: bool,
     /// A fast XorShift rng for scheduler use
     rng: XorShiftRng,
-    /// A togglable idle callback
+    /// A toggleable idle callback
     idle_callback: Option<Box<PausableIdleCallback:Send>>,
     /// A countdown that starts at a random value and is decremented
     /// every time a yield check is performed. When it hits 0 a task
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ impl Scheduler {
 
         // After processing a message, we consider doing some more work on the
         // event loop. The "keep going" condition changes after the first
-        // iteration becase we don't want to spin here infinitely.
+        // iteration because we don't want to spin here infinitely.
         //
         // Once we start doing work we can keep doing work so long as the
         // iteration does something. Note that we don't want to starve the

src/liblibc/lib.rs

@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ pub use types::os::arch::extra::{mach_timebase_info};
 extern {}
 
 /// A wrapper for a nullable pointer. Don't use this except for interacting
-/// with libc. Basically Option, but without the dependance on libstd.
+/// with libc. Basically Option, but without the dependence on libstd.
 // If/when libprim happens, this can be removed in favor of that
 pub enum Nullable<T> {
     Null,
@@ -3497,7 +3497,7 @@ pub mod consts {
 
 
 pub mod funcs {
-    // Thankfull most of c95 is universally available and does not vary by OS
+    // Thankfully most of c95 is universally available and does not vary by OS
     // or anything. The same is not true of POSIX.
 
     pub mod c95 {

src/libnative/io/pipe_win32.rs

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 //! it sounded like named pipes just weren't built for this kind of interaction,
 //! and the suggested solution was to use overlapped I/O.
 //!
-//! I don't realy know what overlapped I/O is, but my basic understanding after
+//! I don't really know what overlapped I/O is, but my basic understanding after
 //! reading about it is that you have an external Event which is used to signal
 //! I/O completion, passed around in some OVERLAPPED structures. As to what this
 //! is, I'm not exactly sure.

src/libnative/io/process.rs

@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ fn waitpid(pid: pid_t, deadline: u64) -> IoResult<rtio::ProcessExit> {
     // Register a new SIGCHLD handler, returning the reading half of the
     // self-pipe plus the old handler registered (return value of sigaction).
     //
-    // Be sure to set up the self-pipe first because as soon as we reigster a
+    // Be sure to set up the self-pipe first because as soon as we register a
     // handler we're going to start receiving signals.
     fn register_sigchld() -> (libc::c_int, c::sigaction) {
         unsafe {

src/libnative/task.rs

@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ impl rt::Runtime for Ops {
     //
     // On a mildly unrelated note, it should also be pointed out that OS
     // condition variables are susceptible to spurious wakeups, which we need to
-    // be ready for. In order to accomodate for this fact, we have an extra
+    // be ready for. In order to accommodate for this fact, we have an extra
     // `awoken` field which indicates whether we were actually woken up via some
     // invocation of `reawaken`. This flag is only ever accessed inside the
     // lock, so there's no need to make it atomic.

src/libregex/compile.rs

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pub enum Inst {
 
     // The CharClass instruction tries to match one input character against
     // the range of characters given.
-    // The flags indicate whether to do a case insentivie match and whether
+    // The flags indicate whether to do a case insensitive match and whether
     // the character class is negated or not.
     CharClass(Vec<(char, char)>, Flags),
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ pub enum Inst {
     EmptyBegin(Flags),
 
     // Matches the end of the string, consumes no characters.
-    // The flags indicate whether it matches if the proceding character
+    // The flags indicate whether it matches if the proceeding character
     // is a new line.
     EmptyEnd(Flags),
 

src/librustc/driver/mod.rs

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ fn describe_codegen_flags() {
     }
 }
 
-/// Process command line options. Emits messages as appropirate.If compilation
+/// Process command line options. Emits messages as appropriate. If compilation
 /// should continue, returns a getopts::Matches object parsed from args, otherwise
 /// returns None.
 pub fn handle_options(mut args: Vec<String>) -> Option<getopts::Matches> {

src/librustc/middle/borrowck/doc.rs

@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ are computed based on the kind of borrow:
 The reasoning here is that a mutable borrow must be the only writer,
 therefore it prevents other writes (`MUTATE`), mutable borrows
 (`CLAIM`), and immutable borrows (`FREEZE`). An immutable borrow
-permits other immutable borrows but forbids writes and mutable borows.
+permits other immutable borrows but forbids writes and mutable borrows.
 Finally, a const borrow just wants to be sure that the value is not
 moved out from under it, so no actions are forbidden.
 

src/librustc/middle/expr_use_visitor.rs

@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ impl<'d,'t,TYPER:mc::Typer> ExprUseVisitor<'d,'t,TYPER> {
                     None => {
                         self.tcx().sess.span_bug(
                             callee.span,
-                            format!("unxpected callee type {}",
+                            format!("unexpected callee type {}",
                                     callee_ty.repr(self.tcx())).as_slice());
                     }
                 }

src/librustc/middle/graph.rs

@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ impl<N,E> Graph<N,E> {
     //
     // A common use for graphs in our compiler is to perform
     // fixed-point iteration. In this case, each edge represents a
-    // constaint, and the nodes themselves are associated with
+    // constraint, and the nodes themselves are associated with
     // variables or other bitsets. This method facilitates such a
     // computation.
 

src/librustc/middle/mem_categorization.rs

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * is the address of the lvalue.  If Expr is an rvalue, this is the address of
  * some temporary spot in memory where the result is stored.
  *
- * Now, cat_expr() classies the expression Expr and the address A=ToAddr(Expr)
+ * Now, cat_expr() classifies the expression Expr and the address A=ToAddr(Expr)
  * as follows:
  *
  * - cat: what kind of expression was this?  This is a subset of the
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  *
  * The resulting categorization tree differs somewhat from the expressions
  * themselves.  For example, auto-derefs are explicit.  Also, an index a[b] is
- * decomposed into two operations: a derefence to reach the array data and
+ * decomposed into two operations: a dereference to reach the array data and
  * then an index to jump forward to the relevant item.
  *
  * ## By-reference upvars

src/librustc/middle/region.rs

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The region maps encode information about region relationships.
 
 - `scope_map` maps from a scope id to the enclosing scope id; this is
   usually corresponding to the lexical nesting, though in the case of
-  closures the parent scope is the innermost conditinal expression or repeating
+  closures the parent scope is the innermost conditional expression or repeating
   block
 
 - `var_map` maps from a variable or binding id to the block in which

src/librustc/middle/trans/adt.rs

@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ pub fn trans_field_ptr(bcx: &Block, r: &Repr, val: ValueRef, discr: Disr,
             let ty = type_of::type_of(bcx.ccx(), *nullfields.get(ix));
             assert_eq!(machine::llsize_of_alloc(bcx.ccx(), ty), 0);
             // The contents of memory at this pointer can't matter, but use
-            // the value that's "reasonable" in case of pointer comparision.
+            // the value that's "reasonable" in case of pointer comparison.
             PointerCast(bcx, val, ty.ptr_to())
         }
         RawNullablePointer { nndiscr, nnty, .. } => {

src/librustc/middle/trans/base.rs

@@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@ fn enum_variant_size_lint(ccx: &CrateContext, enum_def: &ast::EnumDef, sp: Span,
                 for var in variants.iter() {
                     let mut size = 0;
                     for field in var.fields.iter().skip(1) {
-                        // skip the dicriminant
+                        // skip the discriminant
                         size += llsize_of_real(ccx, sizing_type_of(ccx, *field));
                     }
                     sizes.push(size);
@@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ pub fn trans_crate(krate: ast::Crate,
     // LLVM code generator emits a ".file filename" directive
     // for ELF backends. Value of the "filename" is set as the
     // LLVM module identifier.  Due to a LLVM MC bug[1], LLVM
-    // crashes if the module identifer is same as other symbols
+    // crashes if the module identifier is same as other symbols
     // such as a function name in the module.
     // 1. http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11479
     let mut llmod_id = link_meta.crateid.name.clone();

src/librustc/middle/trans/debuginfo.rs

@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ impl EnumMemberDescriptionFactory {
                 // As far as debuginfo is concerned, the pointer this enum represents is still
                 // wrapped in a struct. This is to make the DWARF representation of enums uniform.
 
-                // First create a description of the artifical wrapper struct:
+                // First create a description of the artificial wrapper struct:
                 let non_null_variant = self.variants.get(non_null_variant_index as uint);
                 let non_null_variant_ident = non_null_variant.name;
                 let non_null_variant_name = token::get_ident(non_null_variant_ident);

src/librustc/middle/typeck/check/mod.rs

@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ impl FnStyleState {
 }
 
 /// Whether `check_binop` is part of an assignment or not.
-/// Used to know wether we allow user overloads and to print
+/// Used to know whether we allow user overloads and to print
 /// better messages on error.
 #[deriving(PartialEq)]
 enum IsBinopAssignment{
@@ -3702,7 +3702,7 @@ pub fn check_const_with_ty(fcx: &FnCtxt,
                            e: &ast::Expr,
                            declty: ty::t) {
     // Gather locals in statics (because of block expressions).
-    // This is technically uneccessary because locals in static items are forbidden,
+    // This is technically unnecessary because locals in static items are forbidden,
     // but prevents type checking from blowing up before const checking can properly
     // emit a error.
     GatherLocalsVisitor { fcx: fcx }.visit_expr(e, ());
@@ -4174,7 +4174,7 @@ pub fn instantiate_path(fcx: &FnCtxt,
                 }
                 None => {
                     fcx.tcx().sess.span_bug(span,
-                        "missing default for a not explicitely provided type param")
+                        "missing default for a not explicitly provided type param")
                 }
             }
         }

src/librustc/middle/typeck/infer/coercion.rs

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ impl<'f> Coerce<'f> {
         self.unpack_actual_value(a, |sty_a| {
             match *sty_a {
                 ty::ty_bare_fn(ref a_f) => {
-                    // Bare functions are coercable to any closure type.
+                    // Bare functions are coercible to any closure type.
                     //
                     // FIXME(#3320) this should go away and be
                     // replaced with proper inference, got a patch

src/librustc/middle/typeck/infer/combine.rs

@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ pub fn super_fn_sigs<C:Combine>(this: &C, a: &ty::FnSig, b: &ty::FnSig) -> cres<
 
 pub fn super_tys<C:Combine>(this: &C, a: ty::t, b: ty::t) -> cres<ty::t> {
 
-    // This is a horible hack - historically, [T] was not treated as a type,
+    // This is a horrible hack - historically, [T] was not treated as a type,
     // so, for example, &T and &[U] should not unify. In fact the only thing
     // &[U] should unify with is &[T]. We preserve that behaviour with this
     // check.

src/librustc/middle/typeck/infer/error_reporting.rs

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ works, it often happens that errors are not detected until far after
 the relevant line of code has been type-checked. Therefore, there is
 an elaborate system to track why a particular constraint in the
 inference graph arose so that we can explain to the user what gave
-rise to a patricular error.
+rise to a particular error.
 
 The basis of the system are the "origin" types. An "origin" is the
 reason that a constraint or inference variable arose. There are

src/librustc/middle/typeck/infer/lattice.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  * The code in here is defined quite generically so that it can be
  * applied both to type variables, which represent types being inferred,
  * and fn variables, which represent function types being inferred.
- * It may eventually be applied to ther types as well, who knows.
+ * It may eventually be applied to their types as well, who knows.
  * In some cases, the functions are also generic with respect to the
  * operation on the lattice (GLB vs LUB).
  *

src/librustc/middle/typeck/infer/region_inference/doc.rs

@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ identify and remove strongly connected components (SCC) in the graph.
 Note that such components must consist solely of region variables; all
 of these variables can effectively be unified into a single variable.
 Once SCCs are removed, we are left with a DAG.  At this point, we
-could walk the DAG in toplogical order once to compute the expanding
+could walk the DAG in topological order once to compute the expanding
 nodes, and again in reverse topological order to compute the
 contracting nodes. However, as I said, this does not work given the
 current treatment of closure bounds, but perhaps in the future we can
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ created to replace the bound regions in the input types, but it also
 contains 'intermediate' variables created to represent the LUB/GLB of
 individual regions.  Basically, when asked to compute the LUB/GLB of a
 region variable with another region, the inferencer cannot oblige
-immediately since the valuese of that variables are not known.
+immediately since the values of that variables are not known.
 Therefore, it creates a new variable that is related to the two
 regions.  For example, the LUB of two variables `$x` and `$y` is a
 fresh variable `$z` that is constrained such that `$x <= $z` and `$y

src/librustc/middle/typeck/variance.rs

@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ impl<'a> Visitor<()> for ConstraintContext<'a> {
                     let variant =
                         ty::VariantInfo::from_ast_variant(tcx,
                                                           ast_variant,
-                                                          /*discrimant*/ 0);
+                                                          /*discriminant*/ 0);
                     for &arg_ty in variant.args.iter() {
                         self.add_constraints_from_ty(arg_ty, self.covariant);
                     }

src/librustc/util/sha2.rs

@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ fn add_bytes_to_bits<T: Int + CheckedAdd + ToBits>(bits: T, bytes: T) -> T {
     let (new_high_bits, new_low_bits) = bytes.to_bits();
 
     if new_high_bits > Zero::zero() {
-        fail!("numeric overflow occured.")
+        fail!("numeric overflow occurred.")
     }
 
     match bits.checked_add(&new_low_bits) {
         Some(x) => return x,
-        None => fail!("numeric overflow occured.")
+        None => fail!("numeric overflow occurred.")
     }
 }
 

src/librustdoc/html/markdown.rs

@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ fn parse_lang_string(string: &str) -> (bool,bool,bool,bool) {
 }
 
 /// By default this markdown renderer generates anchors for each header in the
-/// rendered document. The anchor name is the contents of the header spearated
+/// rendered document. The anchor name is the contents of the header separated
 /// by hyphens, and a task-local map is used to disambiguate among duplicate
 /// headers (numbers are appended).
 ///

src/librustdoc/html/toc.rs

@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ pub struct TocEntry {
 #[deriving(PartialEq)]
 pub struct TocBuilder {
     top_level: Toc,
-    /// The current heirachy of parent headings, the levels are
+    /// The current hierarchy of parent headings, the levels are
     /// strictly increasing (i.e. chain[0].level < chain[1].level <
-    /// ...) with each entry being the most recent occurance of a
+    /// ...) with each entry being the most recent occurrence of a
     /// heading with that level (it doesn't include the most recent
-    /// occurences of every level, just, if *is* in `chain` then is is
+    /// occurrences of every level, just, if *is* in `chain` then is is
     /// the most recent one).
     ///
     /// We also have `chain[0].level <= top_level.entries[last]`.
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ impl TocBuilder {
     }
 
     /// Push a level `level` heading into the appropriate place in the
-    /// heirarchy, returning a string containing the section number in
+    /// hierarchy, returning a string containing the section number in
     /// `<num>.<num>.<num>` format.
     pub fn push<'a>(&'a mut self, level: u32, name: String, id: String) -> &'a str {
         assert!(level >= 1);

src/librustdoc/passes.rs

@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ mod unindent_tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn should_ignore_first_line_indent() {
-        // Thi first line of the first paragraph may not be indented as
+        // The first line of the first paragraph may not be indented as
         // far due to the way the doc string was written:
         //
         // #[doc = "Start way over here

src/librustrt/task.rs

@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ impl Task {
 
         // Here we must unsafely borrow the task in order to not remove it from
         // TLS. When collecting failure, we may attempt to send on a channel (or
-        // just run aribitrary code), so we must be sure to still have a local
+        // just run arbitrary code), so we must be sure to still have a local
         // task in TLS.
         unsafe {
             let me: *mut Task = Local::unsafe_borrow();

src/librustrt/unwind.rs

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ pub fn begin_unwind<M: Any + Send>(msg: M, file: &'static str, line: uint) -> !
 /// The core of the unwinding.
 ///
 /// This is non-generic to avoid instantiation bloat in other crates
-/// (which makes compilation of small crates noticably slower). (Note:
+/// (which makes compilation of small crates noticeably slower). (Note:
 /// we need the `Any` object anyway, we're not just creating it to
 /// avoid being generic.)
 ///
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ fn begin_unwind_inner(msg: Box<Any:Send>,
     // First, invoke call the user-defined callbacks triggered on task failure.
     //
     // By the time that we see a callback has been registered (by reading
-    // MAX_CALLBACKS), the actuall callback itself may have not been stored yet,
+    // MAX_CALLBACKS), the actual callback itself may have not been stored yet,
     // so we just chalk it up to a race condition and move on to the next
     // callback. Additionally, CALLBACK_CNT may briefly be higher than
     // MAX_CALLBACKS, so we're sure to clamp it as necessary.

src/librustuv/lib.rs

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ impl ForbidSwitch {
 impl Drop for ForbidSwitch {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
         assert!(self.io == homing::local_id(),
-                "didnt want a scheduler switch: {}",
+                "didn't want a scheduler switch: {}",
                 self.msg);
     }
 }

src/librustuv/stream.rs

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ impl StreamWatcher {
         // function is why that wording exists.
         //
         // Implementation-wise, we must be careful when passing a buffer down to
-        // libuv. Most of this implementation avoids allocations becuase of the
+        // libuv. Most of this implementation avoids allocations because of the
         // blocking guarantee (all stack local variables are valid for the
         // entire read/write request). If our write request can be timed out,
         // however, we must heap allocate the data and pass that to the libuv
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ impl StreamWatcher {
         };
 
         // Send off the request, but be careful to not block until we're sure
-        // that the write reqeust is queued. If the reqeust couldn't be queued,
+        // that the write request is queued. If the request couldn't be queued,
         // then we should return immediately with an error.
         match unsafe {
             uvll::uv_write(req.handle, self.handle, [uv_buf], write_cb)

src/libstd/comm/mod.rs

@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ impl<T: Send> Sender<T> {
     /// ```
     pub fn send_opt(&self, t: T) -> Result<(), T> {
         // In order to prevent starvation of other tasks in situations where
-        // a task sends repeatedly without ever receiving, we occassionally
+        // a task sends repeatedly without ever receiving, we occasionally
         // yield instead of doing a send immediately.
         //
         // Don't unconditionally attempt to yield because the TLS overhead can

src/libsync/lock.rs

@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn test_mutex_arc_nested() {
         // Tests nested mutexes and access
-        // to underlaying data.
+        // to underlying data.
         let arc = Arc::new(Mutex::new(1));
         let arc2 = Arc::new(Mutex::new(arc));
         task::spawn(proc() {

src/libsync/one.rs

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ impl Once {
 
         // Implementation-wise, this would seem like a fairly trivial primitive.
         // The stickler part is where our mutexes currently require an
-        // allocation, and usage of a `Once` should't leak this allocation.
+        // allocation, and usage of a `Once` shouldn't leak this allocation.
         //
         // This means that there must be a deterministic destroyer of the mutex
         // contained within (because it's not needed after the initialization

src/libsyntax/ext/base.rs

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ impl DummyResult {
     /// Create a default MacResult that can only be an expression.
     ///
     /// Use this for macros that must expand to an expression, so even
-    /// if an error is encountered internally, the user will recieve
+    /// if an error is encountered internally, the user will receive
     /// an error that they also used it in the wrong place.
     pub fn expr(sp: Span) -> Box<MacResult> {
         box DummyResult { expr_only: true, span: sp } as Box<MacResult>

src/libsyntax/ext/deriving/cmp/ord.rs

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ fn cs_op(less: bool, equal: bool, cx: &mut ExtCtxt, span: Span, substr: &Substru
             ```
 
             The optimiser should remove the redundancy. We explicitly
-            get use the binops to avoid auto-deref derefencing too many
+            get use the binops to avoid auto-deref dereferencing too many
             layers of pointers, if the type includes pointers.
             */
             let other_f = match other_fs {

src/libsyntax/ext/deriving/generic/mod.rs

@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ impl<'a> MethodDef<'a> {
             &Struct(fields));
 
         // make a series of nested matches, to destructure the
-        // structs. This is actually right-to-left, but it shoudn't
+        // structs. This is actually right-to-left, but it shouldn't
         // matter.
         for (&arg_expr, &pat) in self_args.iter().zip(patterns.iter()) {
             body = cx.expr_match(trait_.span, arg_expr,

src/libsyntax/ext/tt/transcribe.rs

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pub fn new_tt_reader<'a>(sp_diag: &'a SpanHandler,
             dotdotdoted: false,
             sep: None,
         }),
-        interpolations: match interp { /* just a convienience */
+        interpolations: match interp { /* just a convenience */
             None => HashMap::new(),
             Some(x) => x,
         },

src/libsyntax/parse/attr.rs

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ impl<'a> ParserAttr for Parser<'a> {
     }
 
     // Parse attributes that appear after the opening of an item. These should
-    // be preceded by an exclaimation mark, but we accept and warn about one
+    // be preceded by an exclamation mark, but we accept and warn about one
     // terminated by a semicolon. In addition to a vector of inner attributes,
     // this function also returns a vector that may contain the first outer
     // attribute of the next item (since we can't know whether the attribute

src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs

@@ -2582,7 +2582,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
         self.mk_expr(lo, hi, ExprLoop(body, opt_ident))
     }
 
-    // For distingishing between struct literals and blocks
+    // For distinguishing between struct literals and blocks
     fn looking_at_struct_literal(&mut self) -> bool {
         self.token == token::LBRACE &&
         ((self.look_ahead(1, |t| token::is_plain_ident(t)) &&

src/libsyntax/print/pp.rs

@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ pub fn mk_printer(out: Box<io::Writer>, linewidth: uint) -> Printer {
  *
  * There is a parallel ring buffer, 'size', that holds the calculated size of
  * each token. Why calculated? Because for Begin/End pairs, the "size"
- * includes everything betwen the pair. That is, the "size" of Begin is
+ * includes everything between the pair. That is, the "size" of Begin is
  * actually the sum of the sizes of everything between Begin and the paired
  * End that follows. Since that is arbitrarily far in the future, 'size' is
  * being rewritten regularly while the printer runs; in fact most of the
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ impl Printer {
         assert!((self.right != self.left));
     }
     pub fn advance_left(&mut self, x: Token, l: int) -> io::IoResult<()> {
-        debug!("advnce_left ~[{},{}], sizeof({})={}", self.left, self.right,
+        debug!("advance_left ~[{},{}], sizeof({})={}", self.left, self.right,
                self.left, l);
         if l >= 0 {
             let ret = self.print(x.clone(), l);

src/libsyntax/visit.rs

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ pub fn generics_of_fn(fk: &FnKind) -> Generics {
 }
 
 /// Each method of the Visitor trait is a hook to be potentially
-/// overriden.  Each method's default implementation recursively visits
+/// overridden.  Each method's default implementation recursively visits
 /// the substructure of the input via the corresponding `walk` method;
 /// e.g. the `visit_mod` method by default calls `visit::walk_mod`.
 ///

src/libterm/terminfo/searcher.rs

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pub fn get_dbpath_for_term(term: &str) -> Option<Box<Path>> {
         Some(dir) => dirs_to_search.push(Path::new(dir)),
         None => {
             if homedir.is_some() {
-                // ncurses compatability;
+                // ncurses compatibility;
                 dirs_to_search.push(homedir.unwrap().join(".terminfo"))
             }
             match getenv("TERMINFO_DIRS") {

src/libuuid/lib.rs

@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ impl FromStr for Uuid {
     /// Parse a hex string and interpret as a UUID
     ///
     /// Accepted formats are a sequence of 32 hexadecimal characters,
-    /// with or without hypens (grouped as 8, 4, 4, 4, 12).
+    /// with or without hyphens (grouped as 8, 4, 4, 4, 12).
     fn from_str(us: &str) -> Option<Uuid> {
         let result = Uuid::parse_string(us);
         match result {
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ impl Eq for Uuid {}
 
 // FIXME #9845: Test these more thoroughly
 impl<T: Encoder<E>, E> Encodable<T, E> for Uuid {
-    /// Encode a UUID as a hypenated string
+    /// Encode a UUID as a hyphenated string
     fn encode(&self, e: &mut T) -> Result<(), E> {
         e.emit_str(self.to_hyphenated_str().as_slice())
     }