readelf: report DF_1_PIE as "Position Independent Executable"
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 00:24:15 GMT 2021
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 10:48:02AM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
> Grammar nit: I'm not a native english speaker
Which probably means you know English grammar better than many native
speakers. :-)
> and I don't know how that
> rule would be called, but I think that an hyphen would technically be
> required between Position and Independent (Position-Independent)?
Yes, "position-independent" is forming a compound adjective from a
noun plus adjective. A hyphen should normally be used here according
to references like https://www.lexico.com/grammar/hyphen. It just
looks a little odd to me when capitalised. Maybe that's because I've
seen the phrase written wrongly too many times. (The capitalisation
is of course to spell out the common PIE acronym.)
I'll correct the grammar, thanks!
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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