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Author: kaiw
Date: Sat May  7 11:29:48 2011
New Revision: 221598
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221598

Log:
  Document the behavior of `elf_getdata()` and `elf_rawdata()` with
  zero-sized ELF sections.
  
  Obtained from:	elftoolchain

Modified:
  head/lib/libelf/elf_getdata.3

Modified: head/lib/libelf/elf_getdata.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libelf/elf_getdata.3	Sat May  7 11:10:58 2011	(r221597)
+++ head/lib/libelf/elf_getdata.3	Sat May  7 11:29:48 2011	(r221598)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 2006,2008,2010 Joseph Koshy.  All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2006,2008,2010-2011 Joseph Koshy.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd April 30, 2010
+.Dd January 26, 2011
 .Dt ELF_GETDATA 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -142,9 +142,10 @@ always returns
 .Vt Elf_Data
 structures of type
 .Dv ELF_T_BYTE .
-.Ss Special handling of SHT_NOBITS sections
+.Ss Special handling of zero-sized and SHT_NOBITS sections
 For sections of type
-.Dv SHT_NOBITS ,
+.Dv SHT_NOBITS,
+and for zero-sized sections,
 the functions
 .Fn elf_getdata
 and