doc: correct some spelling

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/release-notes/v0.6.2.rst b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.6.2.rst
index 0ef67fc5..7439724c 100644
--- a/Documentation/release-notes/v0.6.2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.6.2.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ V0.6.2
 * add support for _Generic
 
 * fully propagate declarations downward
-  For exemple, it means that code like:
+  For example, it means that code like:
 
         static int foo(void);
         int foo(void) { return 0; }
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ V0.6.2
   * allow a single sparse executable to be used for multiple architectures
   * add support for -mcmodel & -f{pic,PIC,pie,PIE}, mainly for RISC-V
   * add new option, --arch=$ARCH, to specify the target architecture
-  * move all arch-specifc code in separated files (target-$ARCH.c) 
+  * move all arch-specific code into separate files (target-$ARCH.c)
   * try to support the various floating-point ABIs on ARM
   * fix wchar_t & wint_t for openbsd
   * add missing predefines for PPC
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ V0.6.2
   * define _BIG_ENDIAN when needed
   * remove definition of _STRING_ARCH_unaligned (defined by glibc)
   * removed unneeded predefines for integers (now defined by sparse)
-  * better mult-arch support by using --arch=$ARCH
+  * better multi-arch support by using --arch=$ARCH
 
 * testsuite:
   * avoid standard includes in the tests
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ V0.6.2
 
 * misc:
   * add support for '-std=c17/c18'
-  * simplify testng of which version of the standard is used
+  * simplify testing of which version of the standard is used
   * various improvements to the 'dissect' tool
   * simplify the parsing of type specifiers
   * improve diagnostic messages concerning bitfields
diff --git a/sparse.1 b/sparse.1
index bbcffc41..d916ad9e 100644
--- a/sparse.1
+++ b/sparse.1
@@ -437,22 +437,22 @@ Sparse does not issue these warnings by default.
 .
 .TP
 .B \-Wuniversal\-initializer
-Do not suppress warnings caused by using '{ 0 }' instead of '{ }' on
+Do not suppress warnings caused by using '{\ 0\ }' instead of '{\ }' on
 aggregate types, ignoring its special status as universal initializer.
-The concerned warnings are, for exemple, those trigered by
+The concerned warnings are, for example, those triggered by
 \fB\-Wdesignated\-init\fR or \fB\-Wnon\-pointer\-null\fR.
 
-Sparse does not issue these warnings by default, processing '{ 0 }'
-the same as '{ }'.
+Sparse does not issue these warnings by default, processing '{\ 0\ }'
+the same as '{\ }'.
 .
 .SH MISC OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-\-arch=\fIARCH\fR
 Specify the target architecture.
 For architectures having both a 32-bit and a 64-bit variant (mips, powerpc,
-riscv & sparc) the architecture name can be suffixed with \fI32\fR or \fI64\fR.
+riscv and sparc) the architecture name can be suffixed with \fI32\fR or \fI64\fR.
 
-The default architecture & size is the one of the machine used to build Sparse.
+The default architecture and size is the one of the machine used to build Sparse.
 .
 .TP
 .B \-gcc-base-dir \fIdir\fR
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/
 .SH MAILING LIST
 linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
 .
-.SH CONTRIBUTINGS AND REPORTING BUGS
+.SH CONTRIBUTING AND REPORTING BUGS
 Submission of patches and reporting of bugs, as well as discussions
 related to Sparse, should be done via the mailing list (linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org)
 where the development and maintenance is primarily done.