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diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi index 6d2e802..971e0d9 100644 --- a/binutils/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/binutils.texi @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY @end ifinfo @ifinfo -Copyright @copyright{} 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. @c This file documents the GNU binary utilities "ar", "ld", "objcopy", @c "objdump", "nm", "size", "strip", and "ranlib". @c -@c Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c @c This text may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU @c General Public License. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. @title The GNU Binary Utilities @subtitle Version 2.2 @sp 1 -@subtitle April 1993 +@subtitle May 1993 @author Roland H. Pesch @author Cygnus Support @page @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. @end tex @vskip 0pt plus 1filll -Copyright @copyright{} 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -1043,14 +1043,14 @@ archives, @samp{strip -v} lists all members of the archive. @cindex demangling C++ symbols The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that -the user can write many function with the same name (but taking +you can write many function with the same name (but taking different kinds of parameters). So that the linker can keep these overloaded functions from clashing, all C++ function names are -encoded ("mangled") into a funny-looking low-level assembly label. +encoded (``mangled'') into a funny-looking low-level assembly label. The @code{c++filt} program does the inverse mapping: It decodes -("demangles") low-level names into user-level names. +(``demangles'') low-level names into user-level names. -When @code{c++filt} is used as a filter (which is usually the case), +When you use @code{c++filt} as a filter (which is usually the case), it reads from standard input. Every alphanumeric word (consisting of letters, digits, underscores, dollars, or periods) seen in the input is a potential label. If the label decodes into a C++ name. @@ -1059,10 +1059,10 @@ the C++ name will replace the low-level name in the output. A typical use of @code{c++filt} is to pipe the output of @code{nm} though it. -Note that on some systems, both the C and C++ compilers prepend -an underscore in front of every name. (I.e. the C name @code{foo} -gets the low-level name @code{_foo}.) On such systems, @code{c++filt} -will remove any initial underscore of a potential label. +Note that on some systems, both the C and C++ compilers put an +underscore in front of every name. (I.e. the C name @code{foo} gets the +low-level name @code{_foo}.) On such systems, @code{c++filt} removes +any initial underscore of a potential label. @node Index, , c++filt, Top @unnumbered Index |