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authorRoland Pesch <pesch@cygnus>1991-08-19 20:52:38 +0000
committerRoland Pesch <pesch@cygnus>1991-08-19 20:52:38 +0000
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Mon Aug 19 13:48:22 1991 Roland H. Pesch (pesch at cygint.cygnus.com)
* aoutx.h, archive.c, archures.c, bfd.c, bfd.texinfo, cache.c, coffcode.h, core.c, format.c, libbfd.c, libbfd.h, libcoff.h, opncls.c, reloc.c, section.c, syms.c, targets.c (documentation segments): used BFD (caps) more consistently as a name in discourse, fixed a few other minor typos and uses of fonts
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diff --git a/bfd/reloc.c b/bfd/reloc.c
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--- a/bfd/reloc.c
+++ b/bfd/reloc.c
@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
/*doc*
@section Relocations
-Bfd maintains relocations in much the same was as it maintains
+BFD maintains relocations in much the same was as it maintains
symbols; they are left alone until required, then read in en-mass and
traslated into an internal form. There is a common routine
@code{bfd_perform_relocation} which acts upon the canonical form to to
the actual fixup.
Note that relocations are maintained on a per section basis, whilst
-symbols are maintained on a per bfd basis.
+symbols are maintained on a per BFD basis.
-All a back end has to do to fit the bfd interface is to create as many
+All a back end has to do to fit the BFD interface is to create as many
@code{struct reloc_cache_entry} as there are relocations in a
particuar section, and fill in the right bits:
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ relocation emitted has no symbol, just a section to relocate against.
I'm not sure what it means when both a symbol pointer an a section
pointer are present. Some formats use this sort of mechanism to
-describe PIC relocations, but bfd can't to that sort of thing yet.
+describe PIC relocations, but BFD can't to that sort of thing yet.
@item howto
The howto field can be imagined as a relocation instruction. It is a
pointer to a struct which contains information on what to do with all
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ possible to create each howto field on demand.
/*proto* reloc_howto_type
The @code{reloc_howto_type} is a structure which contains all the
-information that bfd needs to know to tie up a back end's data.
+information that BFD needs to know to tie up a back end's data.
*+++