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-rw-r--r--binutils/binutils.texi10
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 5b478ec..09e277e 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-01-03 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
+
+ * binutils.texi: Document new, ARM specific disassembler
+ command line switch "-M force-thumb".
+
1999-12-28 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
* readelf.c: Update with new constants added by Oct 4, 1999
diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi
index d21f0da..8ef446d 100644
--- a/binutils/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/binutils.texi
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
@end ifinfo
@ifinfo
-Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ 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", "strings", "strip", "readelf" and "ranlib".
@c
-@c Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c
@c This text may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU
@c General Public License.
@@ -1354,6 +1354,12 @@ select the name set used by the ARM Procedure Call Standard, whilst
specifying @samp{--disassembler-options=reg-names-raw} will just use
@samp{r} followed by the register number.
+This option can also be used for ARM architectures to force the
+disassembler to interpret all instructions as THUMB instructions by
+using the switch @samp{--disassembler-options=force-thumb}. This can be
+useful when attempting to disassemble thumb code produced by other
+compilers.
+
@item -p
@itemx --private-headers
Print information that is specific to the object file format. The exact