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diff --git a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml index 1ab0ca206..5100f6b1f 100644 --- a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml @@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ ranlib, readelf, size, strings and strip</para></sect3> <sect4><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 +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></sect4> <sect4><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 +it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).</para></sect4> <sect4><title>as</title> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ the archive).</para></sect4> <para>gprof displays call graph profile data.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>ld</title> -<para>ld combines a number of object and archive files, relocates their data +<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></sect4> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ programmers who just want their program to compile and work.</para></sect4> <sect4><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 +the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by an archive member that is a relocatable object file.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>readelf</title> @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ object files in its argument list. By default, one line of output is generated for each object file or each module in an archive.</para></sect4> <sect4><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 +<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 default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded sections of object files. For other types of files, it prints the strings @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ modified copies under different names.</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 +used in the course of building utilities such as objdump. Opcodes are actually "readable text" versions of instructions for the processor.</para></sect4> |