maint: correct typos involving misuse of "a" and "an"

* NEWS: "an misleading"
* src/expr.c: "a integer
* src/ptx.c (find_occurs_in_text): "a end"
* src/shred.c (do_wipefd): "a infinite"
* src/sort.c (SUBTHREAD_LINES_HEURISTIC): "an dual-core"
(compare_random): "an checksum"
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since the typo was in old news.

4 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/expr.c b/src/expr.c
index 2be8b1dbb..ce65ecf46 100644
--- a/src/expr.c
+++ b/src/expr.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ toarith (VALUE *v)
     }
 }
 
-/* Extract a size_t value from a integer value I.
+/* Extract a size_t value from an integer value I.
    If the value is negative, return SIZE_MAX.
    If the value is too large, return SIZE_MAX - 1.  */
 static size_t
diff --git a/src/ptx.c b/src/ptx.c
index 3ee14ffb1..7ac6e8f63 100644
--- a/src/ptx.c
+++ b/src/ptx.c
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ find_occurs_in_text (void)
 
       context_start = cursor;
 
-      /* If a end of line or end of sentence sequence is defined and
+      /* If an end of line or end of sentence sequence is defined and
          non-empty, `next_context_start' will be recomputed to be the end of
          each line or sentence, before each one is processed.  If no such
          sequence, then `next_context_start' is set at the end of the whole
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c
index 27747919f..d8b33e780 100644
--- a/src/shred.c
+++ b/src/shred.c
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ do_wipefd (int fd, char const *qname, struct randint_source *s,
     }
 
   /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
-     Otherwise, we may go into a infinite loop writing data before we
+     Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
      find that we can't rewind the device.  */
   if ((S_ISCHR (st.st_mode) && isatty (fd))
       || S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode)
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index e10159a9b..084addf49 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ struct rlimit { size_t rlim_cur; };
 /* Heuristic value for the number of lines for which it is worth creating
    a subthread, during an internal merge sort.  I.e., it is a small number
    of "average" lines for which sorting via two threads is faster than
-   sorting via one on an "average" system.  On an dual-core 2.0 GHz i686
+   sorting via one on an "average" system.  On a dual-core 2.0 GHz i686
    system with 3GB of RAM and 2MB of L2 cache, a file containing 128K
    lines of gensort -a output is sorted slightly faster with --parallel=2
    than with --parallel=1.  By contrast, using --parallel=1 is about 10%
@@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@ compare_random (char *restrict texta, size_t lena,
                 char *restrict textb, size_t lenb)
 {
   /* XFRM_DIFF records the equivalent of memcmp on the transformed
-     data.  This is used to break ties if there is an checksum
+     data.  This is used to break ties if there is a checksum
      collision, and this is good enough given the astronomically low
      probability of a collision.  */
   int xfrm_diff = 0;