maint.mk: use more readable (yet functionally equivalent) quoting

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+2012-01-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
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+       maint.mk: use more readable (yet functionally equivalent) quoting
+       It is common to quote a single quote in a single quoted string like
+       this:  '...'\''...'.  Unless you know the idiom, that looks like
+       gibberish, so prefer to double-quote the string when possible.
+       Then you can use a more readable, lone single quote: "...'..."
+       * top/maint.mk (sc_cast_of_argument_to_free): Quoting like this
+       "don't" is more readable than the equivalent 'don'\''t'.
+       (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Likewise.
+       (sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value): Likewise.
+       (sc_makefile_path_separator_check): Similar: use ":" in '...',
+       rather than '\'':'\''.
+
 2012-01-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        stdalign: relax _Alignof and tighten _Alignas test