* does not include much failsafes or error reporting when the problem
* does not arise from external transient conditions, and can be fixed
* only in the application code. This is done so in order to make the
- * total code footprint ligther.
+ * total code footprint lighter.
*
*
* ## `NULL` values
*
* Function parameters with a pointer type shall not be `NULL` unless
- * explicitly authorised by the documentation. As an exception, then
+ * explicitly authorised by the documentation. As an exception, when
* the pointer aims at a sequence of bytes and is accompanied with
* a length parameter, and the length is zero (meaning that there is
* no byte at all to retrieve), then the pointer may be `NULL` even if