Hi Mike, On 17 November 2016 at 15:34, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The current pages dumps all the content into one big DESCRIPTION with > no real visual break up between logically independent sections. Add > some subsection headers to make it easier to read and scan. Thanks. That's a good change. I applied your patch, and tweaked a little. The result is already pushed to Git. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man5/elf.5 | 14 +++++++------- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5 > index a7bea6a97290..b152ea3c55ac 100644 > --- a/man5/elf.5 > +++ b/man5/elf.5 > @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the file. > This header file describes the above mentioned headers as C structures > and also includes structures for dynamic sections, relocation sections and > symbol tables. > -.PP > +.SS Basic Types > The following types are used for N-bit architectures (N=32,64, > .I ElfN > stands for > @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ size and alignment guidelines for the relevant class. > If necessary, > data structures contain explicit padding to ensure 4-byte alignment > for 4-byte objects, to force structure sizes to a multiple of 4, and so on. > -.PP > +.SS ELF Header (Ehdr) > The ELF header is described by the type > .I Elf32_Ehdr > or > @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ 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. > -.PP > +.SS Program Header (Phdr) > An executable or shared object file's program header table is an array of > structures, each describing a segment or other information the system needs > to prepare the program for execution. > @@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ should equal > .IR p_offset , > modulo > .IR p_align . > -.PP > +.SS Section Header (Shdr) > A file's section header table lets one locate all the file's sections. > The > section header table is an array of > @@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ The attributes used are > .BR SHF_ALLOC > and > .BR SHF_EXECINSTR . > -.PP > +.SS String and Symbol Tables > String table sections hold null-terminated character sequences, commonly > called strings. > The object file uses these strings to represent symbol > @@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ Every symbol table entry is > in relation to some section. > This member holds the relevant section > header table index. > -.PP > +.SS Relocation Entries (Rel & Rela) > Relocation is the process of connecting symbolic references with > symbolic definitions. > Relocatable files must have information that > @@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ member. > .IR r_addend > This member specifies a constant addend used to compute the value to be > stored into the relocatable field. > -.PP > +.SS Dynamic Tags (Dyn) > The > .I .dynamic > section contains a series of structures that hold relevant > -- > 2.10.2 > -- 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
