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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-10-14 22:05:29 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-10-14 22:05:29 +0000
commitdcaa097bdac430958d365d0e0d092f9c6f517957 (patch)
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parent7debe50a7eb3ec61e183dfe7f9ccb2b9dc91db0a (diff)
Removed c++filt from the GCC descriptions and moved them to the Binutils descriptions
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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ the archive).</para>
<para><command>as</command> is an assembler. It assembles the output of
gcc into object files.</para>
-<para><command>c++filt</command> demangles C++ and Java symbols.</para>
+<para><command>c++filt</command> is used by the linker to demangle C++ and
+Java symbols, to keep overloaded functions from clashing.</para>
<para><command>gprof</command> displays call graph profile data.</para>