From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:02:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	PR binutils/12325
X-Git-Tag: sid-snapshot-20110801~321
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8adf5d7047abefaa5a11a72aeb1e58718c2230eb;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fbinutils.git

	PR binutils/12325
	* doc/binutils.texi (ar cmdline): Document --target, --version and
	--help command line options.
---

diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index b34cd88..d358a16 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-07-01  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	PR binutils/12325
+	* doc/binutils.texi (ar cmdline): Document --target, --version and
+	--help command line options.
+
 2011-06-30  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	PR binutils/12558
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 64333cf..fb1f960 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
 @c man title ar create, modify, and extract from archives
 
 @smallexample
-ar [@option{--plugin} @var{name}] [-]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}] [@var{count}]] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
+ar [@option{--plugin} @var{name}] [-]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}] [@var{count}]] [@option{--target} @var{bfdname}] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}] 
 ar -M [ <mri-script ]
 @end smallexample
 
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ program.
 
 @smallexample
 @c man begin SYNOPSIS ar
-ar [@option{--plugin} @var{name}] [@option{-X32_64}] [@option{-}]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}] [@var{count}]] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
+ar [@option{--plugin} @var{name}] [@option{-X32_64}] [@option{-}]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}] [@var{count}]] [@option{--target} @var{bfdname}] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
 @c man end
 @end smallexample
 
@@ -383,6 +383,13 @@ are extracted.
 
 Files cannot be extracted from a thin archive.
 
+@item --help
+Displays the list of command line options supported by @command{ar}
+and then exits.
+
+@item --version
+Displays the version information of @command{ar} and then exits.
+
 @end table
 
 A number of modifiers (@var{mod}) may immediately follow the @var{p}
@@ -506,6 +513,11 @@ The optional command line switch @option{--plugin} @var{name} causes
 for more file formats.  This option is only available if the toolchain
 has been built with plugin support enabled.
 
+The optional command line switch @option{--target} @var{bfdname}
+specifies that the archive members are in an object code format
+different from your system's default format.  See
+@xref{Target Selection}, for more information.
+
 @c man end
 
 @ignore