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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:55:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      tim@kientzle.com
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        tim@kientzle.com
Subject:   docs/46638: elf.5 update
Message-ID:  <200212302055.gBUKtec01091@ugly.x.kientzle.com>

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>Number:         46638
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Add descriptions of new sections
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 30 13:00:19 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Kientzle
>Release:        FreeBSD-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System:  FreeBSD-CURRENT i386
>Description:
The elf.5 man page does not document either the .jcr or .eh_frame
sections, both of which are generated by default by the current
GCC.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

The following descriptions are terse, as I do not
know the full descriptions.  Better than what's
currently there, though (which is nothing).

Index: elf.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /mnt/cvs/src/share/man/man5/elf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -c -r1.21 elf.5
*** elf.5	1 Oct 2001 16:09:23 -0000	1.21
--- elf.5	11 Nov 2002 05:33:17 -0000
***************
*** 1080,1085 ****
--- 1080,1090 ----
  .Sy SHF_ALLOC
  and
  .Sy SHF_EXECINSTR .
+ .It .jcr
+ This section holds information about Java classes that must
+ be registered.
+ .It .eh_frame
+ This section holds information used for C++ exception-handling.
  .El
  .Pp
  String table sections hold null-terminated character sequences, commonly

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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