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| author | James Henderson <jh7370@my.bristol.ac.uk> | 2019-06-11 13:46:52 +0000 |
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| committer | James Henderson <jh7370@my.bristol.ac.uk> | 2019-06-11 13:46:52 +0000 |
| commit | be7f5c71584c2cdbb9d47f9f7ba8b9a955c94b05 (patch) | |
| tree | 817d2bcc728b973b89ba7f1f3806b84c54c6e933 /llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst | |
| parent | 47d77365aa7148bc7d7b2883cb93ed14bd88999d (diff) | |
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[docs][llvm-nm] Fix documentation regarding llvm-nm reading stdin
llvm-nm reads a.out NOT stdin when no input file is specified. This
patch fixes the doc accordingly, and rephrases the surrounding sentence
slightly.
Reviewed by: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63135
llvm-svn: 363065
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst index 2a2f8275ffc..f679a04d45a 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-nm.rst @@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ DESCRIPTION The :program:`llvm-nm` utility lists the names of symbols from the LLVM bitcode files, object files, or :program:`ar` archives containing them, named on the command line. Each symbol is listed along with some simple information about -its provenance. If no file name is specified, or *-* is used as a file name, -:program:`llvm-nm` will process a file on its standard input stream. +its provenance. If no filename is specified, *a.out* is used as the input. +If *-* is used as a filename, :program:`llvm-nm` will read a file from its +standard input stream. :program:`llvm-nm`'s default output format is the traditional BSD :program:`nm` output format. Each such output record consists of an (optional) 8-digit |
