Detect ELFOSABI_ARM.

[binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / binutils.texi

diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi
index d21f0da0fee53ffc957b69ae4e17c055865456cc..ff87412ddc386ae63cfa95307e8c68c469fdfd18 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/binutils.texi
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
 @end ifinfo
 
 @ifinfo
-Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions.
 @c This file documents the GNU binary utilities "ar", "ld", "objcopy",
 @c  "objdump", "nm", "size", "strings", "strip", "readelf" and "ranlib".
 @c
-@c Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c 
 @c This text may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU
 @c General Public License.
@@ -1354,6 +1354,12 @@ select the name set used by the ARM Procedure Call Standard, whilst
 specifying @samp{--disassembler-options=reg-names-raw} will just use
 @samp{r} followed by the register number.
 
+This option can also be used for ARM architectures to force the
+disassembler to interpret all instructions as THUMB instructions by
+using the switch @samp{--disassembler-options=force-thumb}.  This can be
+useful when attempting to disassemble thumb code produced by other
+compilers.
+
 @item -p
 @itemx --private-headers
 Print information that is specific to the object file format.  The exact
@@ -2134,6 +2140,17 @@ Specify the default language to use when reading an @code{rc} file.
 @var{val} should be a hexadecimal language code.  The low eight bits are
 the language, and the high eight bits are the sublanguage.
 
+@item --use-temp-file
+Use a temporary file to instead of using popen to read the output of
+the preprocessor. Use this option if the popen implementation is buggy 
+on the host (eg., certain non-English language versions of Windows 95 and 
+Windows 98 are known to have buggy popen where the output will instead
+go the console).
+
+@item --no-use-temp-file
+Use popen, not a temporary file, to read the output of the preprocessor.
+This is the default behaviour.
+
 @item --help
 Prints a usage summary.