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diff --git a/share/man/man5/a.out.5 b/share/man/man5/a.out.5 index 1aa6e4c..a659ba7 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/a.out.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/a.out.5 @@ -103,14 +103,15 @@ The fields have the following functions: .It Fa a_midmag This field is stored in host byte-order. It has a number of sub-components accessed by the macros -.Dv N_GETFLAG() , -.Dv N_GETMID() , and -.Dv N_GETMAGIC() , +.Fn N_GETFLAG , +.Fn N_GETMID , +and +.Fn N_GETMAGIC , and set by the macro -.Dv N_SETMAGIC(). +.Fn N_SETMAGIC . .Pp The macro -.Dv N_GETFLAG() +.Fn N_GETFLAG returns a few flags: .Bl -tag -width EX_DYNAMIC .It Dv EX_DYNAMIC @@ -132,11 +133,11 @@ executable image (eg. a shared library), which is to be loaded into the process address space by the run-time link editor. .Pp The macro -.Dv N_GETMID() +.Fn N_GETMID returns the machine-id. This indicates which machine(s) the binary is intended to run on. .Pp -.Dv N_GETMAGIC() +.Fn N_GETMAGIC specifies the magic number, which uniquely identifies binary files and distinguishes different loading conventions. The field must contain one of the following values: @@ -287,7 +288,7 @@ only occurs in shared objects. .It Fa r_copy If set, this relocation record identifies a symbol whose contents should be copied to the location given in -.Fa r_address. +.Fa r_address . The copying is done by the run-time link-editor from a suitable data item in a shared object. .El |
