From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: PR10368, ISO 8859 mentioned as 7bit encoding in strings documentation
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:17:49 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4SDxVt7uN6m6oKA@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
PR 10368
* doc/binutils.texi (strings): Delete example of 7-bit encoding.
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 6024301562d..852ed6002ef 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -3381,7 +3381,7 @@ octal, @samp{x} for hexadecimal, or @samp{d} for decimal.
@itemx --encoding=@var{encoding}
Select the character encoding of the strings that are to be found.
Possible values for @var{encoding} are: @samp{s} = single-7-bit-byte
-characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), @samp{S} =
+characters (default), @samp{S} =
single-8-bit-byte characters, @samp{b} = 16-bit bigendian, @samp{l} =
16-bit littleendian, @samp{B} = 32-bit bigendian, @samp{L} = 32-bit
littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings. (@samp{l}
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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