[Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 81 deletions

diff --git a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml
index caf69bd81..3d6e64670 100644
--- a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml
@@ -1,98 +1,80 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Contents</title>
 
-<para>The Binutils package contains the gasp, gprof, ld, as, ar, nm, objcopy, 
-objdump, ranlib, readelf,  size, strings, strip, c++filt and addr2line 
+<para>The Binutils package contains the addr2line, as, ar, c++filt, gasp, 
+gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings and strip 
 programs</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
 <sect2><title>Description</title>
 
-<sect3><title>gasp</title>
-
-<para>Gasp is the Assembler Macro Preprocessor.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>gprof</title>
-
-<para>gprof displays call graph profile data.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>ld</title>
-
-<para>ld combines a number of object and archive files,  relocates  their data 
-and ties up symbol references. Often the last step in building a new compiled 
-program to run is a call to ld.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+<sect3><title>addr2line</title>
+<para>addr2line translates program addresses into file names and line numbers. 
+Given an address and an executable, it uses the  debugging information in 
+the executable to figure out which file name and line number are associated 
+with a given address.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>as</title>
-
 <para>as is primarily intended to assemble the output of the GNU C compiler gcc 
-for use by the linker ld.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+for use by the linker ld.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>ar</title>
-
 <para>The ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive 
 is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes 
 it  possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of 
-the archive).</para>
+the archive).</para></sect3>
 
-</sect3>
+<sect3><title>c++filt</title>
+<para>The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that it is 
+possible to
+write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters 
+of different types).  All C++ function names are encoded into a low-level 
+assembly label (this process is known as mangling). The c++filt program 
+does the inverse mapping: it decodes (demangles) low-level names into 
+user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded functions 
+from clashing.</para></sect3>
 
-<sect3><title>nm</title>
+<sect3><title>gasp</title>
+<para>Gasp is the Assembler Macro Preprocessor.</para></sect3>
 
-<para>nm lists the symbols from object files.</para>
+<sect3><title>gprof</title>
+<para>gprof displays call graph profile data.</para></sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>ld</title>
+<para>ld combines a number of object and archive files,  relocates  their data 
+and ties up symbol references. Often the last step in building a new compiled 
+program to run is a call to ld.</para></sect3>
 
-</sect3>
+<sect3><title>nm</title>
+<para>nm lists the symbols from object files.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>objcopy</title>
-
 <para>objcopy utility copies the contents of an object file to another. objcopy 
 uses the GNU BFD Library to read and write the object files. It can write 
 the destination object file in a format different from that of the source
-object file.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+object file.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>objdump</title>
-
 <para>objdump displays information about one or more object files. The options 
 control what particular information to display. This information is mostly 
 useful to programmers who are working on the compilation tools, as opposed to
-programmers who just want their program to compile and work.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+programmers who just want their program to compile and work.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>ranlib</title>
-
 <para>ranlib generates an index to the contents of an archive, and stores it in 
 the archive.  The index lists each symbol defined by a member of an archive 
-that is a relocatable object file.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+that is a relocatable object file.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>readelf</title>
-
-<para>readelf displays information about elf type binaries.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+<para>readelf displays information about elf type binaries.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>size</title>
-
 <para>size lists the section sizes --and the total size-- for each of the 
 object files objfile in its argument  list. By default, one line of output is 
-generated for each object file or each module in an archive.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+generated for each object file or each module in an archive.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>strings</title>
-
 <para>For each  file  given, strings prints the printable character sequences 
 that are at least  4  characters  long (or the number specified with an
 option to the program) and are followed by an unprintable character. By 
@@ -100,40 +82,13 @@ default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded
 sections of object files; for other types of files, it prints the strings 
 from the whole file.</para>
 
-<para>strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+<para>strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>strip</title>
-
 <para>strip discards all or specific symbols from object files. The list of 
 object files may include archives. At least one object file must be
 given. strip modifies the files named in its argument, rather than writing 
-modified copies under different names.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>c++filt</title>
-
-<para>The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that it is 
-possible to
-write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters 
-of different types).  All C++ function names are encoded into a low-level 
-assembly label (this process is known as mangling). The c++filt program 
-does the inverse mapping: it decodes (demangles) low-level names into 
-user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded functions 
-from clashing.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>addr2line</title>
-
-<para>addr2line translates program addresses into file names and line numbers. 
-Given an address and an executable, it uses the  debugging information in 
-the executable to figure out which file name and line number are associated 
-with a given address.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+modified copies under different names.</para></sect3>
 
 </sect2>