diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 2ca27ff8468..1feb1bd6d17 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2018-11-13  Michael Ploujnikov  <michael.ploujnikov@oracle.com>
+
+	* doc/extend.texi: Fix typo in the weakref description.
+
 2018-11-13  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
 
 	PR tree-optimization/86991
diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
index 5b180e76b21..15d973a7f48 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -3653,7 +3653,7 @@ symbol, not necessarily in the same translation unit.
 The effect is equivalent to moving all references to the alias to a
 separate translation unit, renaming the alias to the aliased symbol,
 declaring it as weak, compiling the two separate translation units and
-performing a reloadable link on them.
+performing a link with relocatable output (ie: @code{ld -r}) on them.
 
 At present, a declaration to which @code{weakref} is attached can
 only be @code{static}.