Merrriam-Webster says "alongside" is one word. Clarified some muddled

verbiage. Used the subjunctive mood once. "Test suite" is two words, not
one. Patched some unidiomatic English. Used the plural "headers" when
discussing ELF objects. Used singular verbs to describe "gprofng", for
consistency with other items.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/chapter08/binutils.xml b/chapter08/binutils.xml
index c969eab00..28d44a9a0 100644
--- a/chapter08/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/binutils.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--enable-gold</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (along side the
+          <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (alongside the
           default linker).</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--with-system-zlib</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Use the installed zlib library rather than building the
+          <para>Use the installed zlib library instead of building the
           included version.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
           a custom system, this target-specific directory in <filename
           class="directory">/usr</filename> is not required. <filename
           class="directory">$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)</filename> would be
-          used if the system was used to cross-compile (for example, compiling a
+          used if the system were used to cross-compile (for example, compiling a
           package on an Intel machine that generates code that can be executed
           on PowerPC machines).</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">grep '^FAIL:' $(find -name '*.log')</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold testsuite when the
+    <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold test suite when the
     <option>--enable-default-pie</option> and
     <option>--enable-default-ssp</option> options are passed to GCC.
     <!-- Caused by egrep deprecation.  Note that we don't "patch" temp grep.
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
     some gas tests may fail if parallel jobs are used.  If you are not
     assured of the correctness of gas, invoke
     <command>make check-gas</command> to run gas testsuite separately and
-    all tests should pass. Three gprofng tests result
-    <literal>ERROR</literal> and they are counted as
+    all tests should pass. Three gprofng tests yield the 
+    <literal>ERROR</literal> result, and they are counted as
     <literal>UNRESOLVED</literal> in the summary.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ rm -fv /usr/share/man/man1/gprofng.1</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry id="elfedit">
         <term><command>elfedit</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Updates the ELF header of ELF files</para>
+          <para>Updates the ELF headers of ELF files</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils elfedit">
             <primary sortas="b-elfedit">elfedit</primary>
           </indexterm>
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ rm -fv /usr/share/man/man1/gprofng.1</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry id="gprofng">
         <term><command>gprofng</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Gather and analyze performance data</para>
+          <para>Gathers and analyzes performance data</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils gprofng">
             <primary sortas="b-gprofng">gprofng</primary>
           </indexterm>
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ rm -fv /usr/share/man/man1/gprofng.1</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry id="ld.bfd">
         <term><command>ld.bfd</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Hard link to <command>ld</command></para>
+          <para>A hard link to <command>ld</command></para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld.bfd">
             <primary sortas="b-ld.bfd">ld.bfd</primary>
           </indexterm>