* if you do not require the atomic guarantees.
*
* Note: there are no guarantees that this function will not be reordered
- * on non x86 architectures, so if you are writting portable code,
+ * on non x86 architectures, so if you are writing portable code,
* make sure not to rely on its reordering guarantees.
*
* Note that @nr may be almost arbitrarily large; this function is not