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| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 828eb5d..aaa0951 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1399,7 +1399,9 @@ If the output architecture has alternate machine codes, use the @var{index}th code instead of the default one. This is useful in case a machine is assigned an official code and the tool-chain adopts the new code, but other applications still depend on the original code -being used. +being used. For ELF based architectures if the @var{index} +alternative does not exist then the value is treated as an absolute +number to be stored in the e_machine field of the ELF header. @item --writable-text Mark the output text as writable. This option isn't meaningful for all |