[Bug binutils/24777] New: Documentation: size utility not well described in man page NAME section

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24777

            Bug ID: 24777
           Summary: Documentation: size utility not well described in man
                    page NAME section
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: pwbugreports at gmx dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

The NAME section in the size(1) man page reads as follows:

size - list section sizes and total size.

But this description assumes the knowledge that size operates on object or
archive files, making it unnecessarily difficult to discover size using
apropos(1).

The full stop/period at the end of the line is also unconventional.

It would be more useful if it read:

size - list section sizes and total size of object or archive files

This bug report arose from a mailing list thread archived at:
https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg08885.html

Thank you.

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