From 651f491b51ea10fbecca8ef646ee17d353cba7e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:43:45 -0600
Subject: 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.

---
 chapter08/binutils.xml | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter08')

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>
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