From c68394e344ee62498c6444ef2decc57f36f6e716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:27:49 +0000
Subject: 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
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 appendixa/binutils-desc.xml | 18 ++----------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

(limited to 'appendixa/binutils-desc.xml')

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
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