On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When describing e_ident, most of the EI_xxx defines mention the exact > byte number. This is useful when manually hacking an ELF with a hex > editor. However, the last few fields don't do this which means you > have to count things up yourself. Add a single world to each so you > don't have to do that. Thanks, Mike. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man5/elf.5 | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5 > index 8427244..e08987d 100644 > --- a/man5/elf.5 > +++ b/man5/elf.5 > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ Two's complement, big-endian. > .TP > .PD 0 > .BR EI_VERSION > -The version number of the ELF specification: > +The seventh byte is the version number of the ELF specification: > .\" .Bl -tag -width "EV_CURRENT" -compact > .RS 12 > .TP 14 > @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Current version. > .\".El > .TP > .BR EI_OSABI > -This byte identifies the operating system > +The eighth byte identifies the operating system > and ABI to which the object is targeted. > Some fields in other ELF structures have flags > and values that have platform-specific meanings; > @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ Stand-alone (embedded) ABI. > .RE > .TP > .BR EI_ABIVERSION > -This byte identifies the version of the ABI > +The ninth byte identifies the version of the ABI > to which the object is targeted. > This field is used to distinguish among incompatible versions of an ABI. > The interpretation of this version number > -- > 1.8.1.2 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
