Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] tools/fuzz: introduce x86 instruction emulator target

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 05:59:40PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] tools/fuzz: introduce x86 instruction 
> emulator target"):
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:30:30AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 12.12.16 at 12:19, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I mean "states". There are three states we need to reset.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, to me as a non-native speaker it feels wrong to use plural
> > > here (just like for e.g. milk), but maybe I'm wrong.
> > 
> > "State" is countable when used to represent the condition of
> > somebody/something.  Various other meanings of "state" don't apply here.
> 
> I think "three states" can only be used to mean three alternative
> possible values of the same variable.  It cannot be used to mean three
> separate variables.
> 
> So "a state" is one of the possible values.  You can also say
> something like "the system is in a broken state", but again, this
> refers to a specific state amongst all the possible different states.
> 
> "Reset all states" is really odd and could almost never be right.
> 

David suggested "reset all state variables". That's what I have now.

Wei.

> Ian.

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