very nonfatal error in GDB manual

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From: Jim Blandy
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 17:04

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The following sentence appears in the node "Messages/Warnings" in the
info files distributed with GDB 4.2 and 4.5:

       By default, GDB is cautious, and asks what sometimes seem to be a
    lot of stupid questions to confirm certain commands.

The noun clause 'a lot of stupid questions', while referring to many
stupid questions, is singular - 'a lot' is just one lot.  Therefore,
one should use 'seems', not 'seem':

       By default, GDB is cautious, and asks what sometimes seems to be a
    lot of stupid questions to confirm certain commands.

This error renders the GDB manual practically unusable.  :-)

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Subject: very nonfatal error in GDB manual
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