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elf.5: A few tweaks to Mike Frysinger's text (Mike to check) 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-11-27 11:56:25 +01:00
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@ -1840,11 +1840,12 @@ This is automatically populated by the linker.
ELF notes allow for appending arbitrary information for the system to use.
They are largely used by core files
.RI ( e_type
of
o f
.BR ET_CORE ),
but many projects define their own set of extensions.
For example,
the GNU project passes information from the linker to the C library.
the GNU tool chain uses ELF notes to information from
the linker to the C library.
Note sections contain a series of notes (see the
.I struct
@ -1886,7 +1887,7 @@ Keep in mind that the interpretation of
depends on the namespace defined by the
.I n_namesz
field.
After, of course, whether the ELF image has been determined to be a core.
After, of course, having determined whether the ELF image is a core file.
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