Submitter:CFP
Submission Date: 2024-10-13
Document: WG14 N3379
Title:can not versus cannot
Reference Documents:N3301

Summary

"can not" should be "cannot" in 5.2.2.4p13 (Example 4).

Background

In C99, C11, C17 and the DIS version of C23, 5.2.2.4p13 (Example 4) had:

... Values are independent of whether they are represented in a register or in memory. For example, an implicit spilling of a register is not permitted to alter the value. ...

Sometime before C2Y N3301, "is not permitted to" was changed to "can not":

... Values are independent of whether they are represented in a register or in memory. For example, an implicit spilling of a register can not alter the value. ...

However, the "can not" in that is wrong. It should be "cannot".

Or, perhaps: "is not allowed to", or back to "is not permitted to".