Changeset 651f491 for chapter08/binutils.xml

Timestamp:

11/18/2022 09:43:45 PM (18 months ago)

Author:

David Bryant <davidbryant@…>

Branches:

11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

1ace465, 46405a5b, 54948b7, b59b371

Parents:

d6346a7

Message:

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.

File:

• chapter08/binutils.xml (modified) (8 diffs)

chapter08/binutils.xml

@@ -88 +88 @@
         <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>
@@ -119 +119 @@
         <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>
@@ -144 +144 @@
           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>
@@ -165 +165 @@
 <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.
@@ -180 +180 @@
     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>
 
@@ -274 +274 @@
         <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>
@@ -294 +294 @@
         <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>
@@ -327 +327 @@
         <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>