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-rw-r--r--man5/elf.56
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5
index 84272444..e08987d3 100644
--- a/man5/elf.5
+++ b/man5/elf.5
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ Two's complement, big-endian.
.TP
.PD 0
.BR EI_VERSION
-The version number of the ELF specification:
+The seventh byte is the version number of the ELF specification:
.\" .Bl -tag -width "EV_CURRENT" -compact
.RS 12
.TP 14
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Current version.
.\".El
.TP
.BR EI_OSABI
-This byte identifies the operating system
+The eighth byte identifies the operating system
and ABI to which the object is targeted.
Some fields in other ELF structures have flags
and values that have platform-specific meanings;
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ Stand-alone (embedded) ABI.
.RE
.TP
.BR EI_ABIVERSION
-This byte identifies the version of the ABI
+The ninth byte identifies the version of the ABI
to which the object is targeted.
This field is used to distinguish among incompatible versions of an ABI.
The interpretation of this version number