Update passes/cmds/select.cc

Co-Authored-By: Eddie Hung <eddie@fpgeh.com>

diff --git a/passes/cmds/select.cc b/passes/cmds/select.cc
index 0f0fe575fb4688a74fc94596996b61c1fce4e470..50c1b57f81234b64c571f030b304660c8a71ddf6 100644 (file)
--- a/passes/cmds/select.cc
+++ b/passes/cmds/select.cc
@@ -1113,8 +1113,8 @@ struct SelectPass : public Pass {
                log("    <obj_pattern>\n");
                log("        select the specified object(s) from the current module\n");
                log("\n");
-               log("Prefix the following patterns with '=' if the pattern should match black-/\n");
-               log("white-box modules and their contents.\n");
+               log("By default, patterns will not match black/white-box modules or their");
+               log("contents. To include such objects, prefix the pattern with '='.\n");
                log("\n");
                log("A <mod_pattern> can be a module name, wildcard expression (*, ?, [..])\n");
                log("matching module names, or one of the following:\n");