@c This summary of BFD is shared by the BFD and LD docs.
-@c Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
When an object file is opened, BFD subroutines automatically determine
the format of the input object file. They then build a descriptor in
functions and to global, static, and common variables. Some symbol
information is not worth retaining; in @code{a.out}, type information is
stored in the symbol table as long symbol names. This information would
-be useless to most COFF debuggers; the linker has command line switches
+be useless to most COFF debuggers; the linker has command-line switches
to allow users to throw it away.
There is one word of type information within the symbol, so if the