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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-06-14 16:27:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-06-14 16:27:49 +0000 |
| commit | c68394e344ee62498c6444ef2decc57f36f6e716 (patch) | |
| tree | 965cd5166a163cc7981618123fdd4c7fee995827 /appendixa | |
| parent | 6bbdfcd32651631eff38d097304dd366495da3fd (diff) | |
Updated Binutils package descriptions and GCC c++filt description.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1994 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'appendixa')
| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/binutils-desc.xml | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/gcc-desc.xml | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml index 54167fde2..d897eda61 100644 --- a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <sect3><title>Program Files</title> -<para>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, gasp, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, +<para>addr2line, ar, as, gasp, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings and strip</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Descriptions</title> @@ -25,16 +25,6 @@ the archive).</para></sect4> <para>as is primarily intended to assemble the output of the GNU C compiler gcc for use by the linker ld.</para></sect4> -<sect4><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></sect4> - <sect4><title>gasp</title> <para>gasp is the Assembler Macro Preprocessor.</para></sect4> @@ -93,17 +83,13 @@ modified copies under different names.</para></sect4> </sect3> <sect3><title>Library Files</title> -<para>libbfd.a, libiberty.a and libopcodes.a</para></sect3> +<para>libbfd.[a,so] and libopcodes.[a,so]</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Descriptions</title> <sect4><title>libbfd</title> <para>libbfd is the Binary File Descriptor library.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libiberty</title> -<para>libiberty is a collection of subroutines used by various GNU -programs including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para></sect4> - <sect4><title>libopcodes</title> <para>libopcodes is a native library for dealing with opcodes and is used in the course of building utilities such as objdump. Opcodes are diff --git a/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml b/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml index 9881a2ed1..4a7bce989 100644 --- a/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml @@ -20,7 +20,13 @@ file from one or more of these compiler generated object files.</para></sect4> gcc etc.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>c++filt</title> -<para>c++filt is used to demangle C++ symbols.</para></sect4> +<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></sect4> <sect4><title>collect2</title> <para>collect2 assists with the compilation of constructors.</para></sect4> |