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[PATCH] doc update of --size-sort in nm
- From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan at phys dot uoa dot gr>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:51:42 +0200
- Subject: [PATCH] doc update of --size-sort in nm
Hello!
This small patch regards to a modification we did before a few months
in nm.
Regards,
Elias
ChangeLog
21-02-2003 Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan at phys dot uoa dot gr>
* doc/nm.1 (--size-sort): Update.
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RCS file: /home/anteater/bucvs/src/binutils/doc/nm.1,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -bu -r1.1 /home/anteater/bucvs/src/binutils/doc/nm.1
--- /home/anteater/bucvs/src/binutils/doc/nm.1 2003/02/21 16:20:32 1.1
+++ /home/anteater/bucvs/src/binutils/doc/nm.1 2003/02/21 16:37:36
@@ -339,7 +339,10 @@
.IX Item "size-sort"
Sort symbols by size. The size is computed as the difference between
the value of the symbol and the value of the symbol with the next higher
-value. The size of the symbol is printed, rather than the value.
+value. If the object is ELF the size is taken from the internal ELF
+structure. If the \f(CW\*(C`bsd\*(C'\fR output format is used the size of
+the symbol is printed, rather than the value, and \fB\-S\fR must be used in order
+both size and value to be printed.
.Ip "\fB\-t\fR \fIradix\fR" 4
.IX Item "-t radix"
.Ip "\fB\*(--radix=\fR\fIradix\fR" 4