diff --git a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml
index 26163f7dc..2d51386b3 100644
--- a/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/binutils-desc.xml
@@ -104,7 +104,10 @@ modified copies under different names.
programs including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.
libopcodes
-No description is currently available.
+libopcodes is a native library for dealing with opcodes and is
+used in the course of building utilities such as objdump. Opcodes are
+actually "readable text" versions of instructions for the
+processor.
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 1a497b0a5..dfc25e9c9 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
+March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
+library description.
+
March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
move /usr/bin/bzless and
/usr/bin/bzmore to the
-
-
+
+