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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-12-31 18:16:35 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-12-31 18:16:35 +0000
commitae12f57fac362b70a95471c919b9bd44d19607a5 (patch)
tree877444e4d1f7e2f629cc56df7642789ee1b949b5
parent8a011db3a5d0218e0445148b33c93c13d7f4cbde (diff)
Fix edata and etext description, and clarify these are not variables;
from KUDO Takashi on bugs@, with tweaks from jmc@ and drahn@
-rw-r--r--share/man/man3/end.38
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man3/end.3 b/share/man/man3/end.3
index 941f87112e6..90ea915adfb 100644
--- a/share/man/man3/end.3
+++ b/share/man/man3/end.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: end.3,v 1.8 2003/06/02 23:30:12 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: end.3,v 1.9 2005/12/31 18:16:34 miod Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: end.3,v 1.5 1996/03/01 00:17:49 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1986
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@
.Vt extern etext;
.Vt extern edata;
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The global variables
-.Va end ,
+The addresses of the global symbols
.Va etext ,
+.Va edata ,
and
-.Va edata
+.Va end
correspond to the next address following the end of the text segment,
the end of initialized data segment, and the end of the data segment
.Pq Tn BSS .