oops - omitted from previous delta

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

diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi
index 064db955e1058a3441ec5f72d8d64baf87869303..41146635c19bf96c2770d3c8dcc26ec13ce72b2f 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, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
 @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, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c 
 @c This text may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU
 @c Free Documentation License.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
 @end tex
 
 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
@@ -931,6 +931,11 @@ use @samp{-S} to remove sections containing debugging information.  In
 some cases @samp{-R} will be useful to remove sections which contain
 information that is not needed by the binary file.
 
+Note - @code{objcopy} is not able to change the endianness of its input
+files.  If the input format has an endianness, (some formats do not),
+@code{objcopy} can only copy the inputs into file formats that have the
+same endianness or which have no endianness (eg @samp{srec}).
+
 @table @code
 @item @var{infile}
 @itemx @var{outfile}