Merge #1370: Corrected some typos

b6b9834 small fixes (Alejandro)

Pull request description:

  Corrected some typos

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examples/examples_util.h

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void secure_erase(void *ptr, size_t len) {
      *    As best as we can tell, this is sufficient to break any optimisations that
      *    might try to eliminate "superfluous" memsets.
      * This method used in memzero_explicit() the Linux kernel, too. Its advantage is that it is
-     * pretty efficient, because the compiler can still implement the memset() efficently,
+     * pretty efficient, because the compiler can still implement the memset() efficiently,
      * just not remove it entirely. See "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful" by
      * Yang et al. (USENIX Security 2017) for more background.
      */

include/secp256k1_ellswift.h

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ SECP256K1_API SECP256K1_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT int secp256k1_ellswift_create(
 /** Given a private key, and ElligatorSwift public keys sent in both directions,
  *  compute a shared secret using x-only Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH).
  *
- *  Returns: 1: shared secret was succesfully computed
+ *  Returns: 1: shared secret was successfully computed
  *           0: secret was invalid or hashfp returned 0
  *  Args:    ctx:       pointer to a context object.
  *  Out:     output:    pointer to an array to be filled by hashfp.

sage/group_prover.sage

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def normalize_factor(p):
   (8) * (-bx + ax)^3
   ```
   """
-  # Assert p is not 0 and that its non-zero coeffients are coprime.
+  # Assert p is not 0 and that its non-zero coefficients are coprime.
   # (We could just work with the primitive part p/p.content() but we want to be
   # aware if factor() does not return a primitive part in future sage versions.)
   assert p.content() == 1

src/ecmult.h

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #  pragma message DEBUG_CONFIG_DEF(ECMULT_WINDOW_SIZE)
 #endif
 
-/* Noone will ever need more than a window size of 24. The code might
+/* No one will ever need more than a window size of 24. The code might
  * be correct for larger values of ECMULT_WINDOW_SIZE but this is not
  * tested.
  *

src/ecmult_const_impl.h

@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static int secp256k1_ecmult_const_xonly(secp256k1_fe* r, const secp256k1_fe *n,
      *
      * It is easy to verify that both (n*g, g^2, v) and its negation (n*g, -g^2, v) have affine X
      * coordinate n/d, and this holds even when the square root function doesn't have a
-     * determinstic sign. We choose the (n*g, g^2, v) version.
+     * deterministic sign. We choose the (n*g, g^2, v) version.
      *
      * Now switch to the effective affine curve using phi_v, where the input point has coordinates
      * (n*g, g^2). Compute (X, Y, Z) = q * (n*g, g^2) there.

src/field.h

@@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static int secp256k1_fe_cmp_var(const secp256k1_fe *a, const secp256k1_fe *b);
 
 /** Set a field element equal to a provided 32-byte big endian value, reducing it.
  *
- * On input, r does not need to be initalized. a must be a pointer to an initialized 32-byte array.
+ * On input, r does not need to be initialized. a must be a pointer to an initialized 32-byte array.
  * On output, r = a (mod p). It will have magnitude 1, and not be normalized.
  */
 static void secp256k1_fe_set_b32_mod(secp256k1_fe *r, const unsigned char *a);
 
 /** Set a field element equal to a provided 32-byte big endian value, checking for overflow.
  *
- * On input, r does not need to be initalized. a must be a pointer to an initialized 32-byte array.
+ * On input, r does not need to be initialized. a must be a pointer to an initialized 32-byte array.
  * On output, r = a if (a < p), it will be normalized with magnitude 1, and 1 is returned.
  * If a >= p, 0 is returned, and r will be made invalid (and must not be used without overwriting).
  */