On 01/27/2016 11:57 PM, Chris Pick wrote: > The ELF header section's e_shstrndx contained a duplicate desription of > the SHN_* special section header indicies. Remove them. Thanks, Chris. Patch applied. (Things are a little easier if you inline patches though.) Cheers, Michael ==== >From 562c62bc0fd68fb7f94a98142a9fd49baab95e45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Pick <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:32:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] elf.5: remove erroneous, duplicate SHN_* section The ELF header section's e_shstrndx contained a duplicate desription of the SHN_* special section header indicies. Remove them. --- man5/elf.5 | 49 ------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5 index c140bb2..5a64704 100644 --- a/man5/elf.5 +++ b/man5/elf.5 @@ -622,55 +622,6 @@ member of the initial entry in section header table. Otherwise, the .IR sh_link member of the initial entry in section header table contains the value zero. -.RS 12 -.\" .Bl -tag -width "SHN_LORESERVE" -.TP 14 -.BR SHN_UNDEF -This value marks an undefined, missing, irrelevant, or otherwise meaningless -section reference. -For example, a symbol -"defined" -relative to section number -.BR SHN_UNDEF -is an undefined symbol. -.TP -.BR SHN_LORESERVE -This value specifies the lower bound of the range of reserved indices. -.TP -.BR SHN_LOPROC -Values greater than or equal to -.BR SHN_HIPROC -are reserved for processor-specific semantics. -.TP -.BR SHN_HIPROC -Values less than or equal to -.BR SHN_LOPROC -are reserved for processor-specific semantics. -.TP -.BR SHN_ABS -This value specifies absolute values for the corresponding reference. -For -example, symbols defined relative to section number -.BR SHN_ABS -have absolute values and are not affected by relocation. -.TP -.BR SHN_COMMON -Symbols defined relative to this section are common symbols, such as Fortran -COMMON or unallocated C external variables. -.TP -.BR SHN_HIRESERVE -This value specifies the upper bound of the range of reserved -indices between -.BR SHN_LORESERVE -and -.BR SHN_HIRESERVE , -inclusive; the values do -not reference the section header table. -That is, the section header table -does -.I not -contain entries for the reserved indices. -.RE .\" .El .\" .El .PP -- 1.9.1 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
