--- a/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared/vmGCOperations.cpp	Wed Jan 29 19:54:44 2014 -0500
+++ b/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared/vmGCOperations.cpp	Thu Jan 30 14:01:45 2014 +0100
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
 // Allocations may fail in several threads at about the same time,
 // resulting in multiple gc requests.  We only want to do one of them.
-// In case a GC locker is active and the need for a GC is already signalled,
+// In case a GC locker is active and the need for a GC is already signaled,
 // we want to skip this GC attempt altogether, without doing a futile
 // safepoint operation.
 bool VM_GC_Operation::skip_operation() const {