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diff --git a/share/man/man5/elf.5 b/share/man/man5/elf.5 index bc7e83100503..f31fe2b4b6d4 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/elf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/elf.5 @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ The section holds information defined by the program, whose format and meaning are determined solely by the program. .It Dv SHT_SYMTAB This section holds a symbol table. -Typically, +Typically, .Sy SHT_SYMTAB provides symbols for link editing, though it may also be used for dynamic linking. @@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ will include the .Sy SHF_ALLOC bit. Otherwise the bit will be off. -By convention, +By convention, .Dq NAME is supplied by the section to which the relocations apply. Thus a relocation @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ By convention, .Dq NAME is supplied by the section to which the relocations apply. Thus a relocation -section for +section for .Sy .text normally would have the name .Sy .rela.text . @@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ This section is of type The attribute used is .Sy SHF_ALLOC . .It .rodata1 -This section hold read-only data that typically contributes to a +This section hold read-only data that typically contributes to a non-writable segment in the process image. This section is of type .Sy SHT_PROGBITS . @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ header table index. .Pp Relocation is the process of connecting symbolic references with symbolic definitions. -Relocatable files must have information that +Relocatable files must have information that describes how to modify their section contents, thus allowing executable and shared object files to hold the right information for a process' program image. @@ -1310,13 +1310,13 @@ stored into the relocatable field. .%B "Executable and Linking Format (ELF)" .Re .Sh HISTORY -The ELF header files made their appearance in +The ELF header files made their appearance in .Fx 2.2.6 . ELF in itself first appeared in .At V . The ELF format is an adopted standard. .Sh AUTHORS -This manual page was written by +This manual page was written by .An Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven .Aq asmodai@FreeBSD.org with inspiration from BSDi's BSD/OS |