Texi2dvi 4.8 rejects bfd.texinfo in binutils 2.16

[Andrew Koenig]

Texinfo 4.8, Sparc Solaris 2.8

binutils 2.16 bfd/doc

If I execute

    texi2dvi bfd.texinfo

I get the following:

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This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
entering extended mode
(/tmp/binutils-2.16/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo
(/home/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2005-01-30.17]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, 
macros,
cross references, insertions,
(/home/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex) localization,
and turning on texinfo input format.) [1] [2] Chapter 1
Underfull \hbox (badness 3590) in paragraph at lines 146--150
address@hidden BFD was first im-ple-mented by mem-bers of Cygnus Sup-port; 
Steve 
Cha
m-ber-

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 146--150
@textrm lain (@texttt address@hidden@textrm ), John Gilmore (@texttt 
address@hidden
address@hidden ), K. Richard Pix-ley
/tmp/binutils-2.16/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo:184: This command can appear only in 
env
ironment @example, not in environment @lisp.
@badenverr ...temp , not @inenvironment @thisenv }

@checkenv address@hidden @thisenv @temp @else @badenverr
                                                  @fi
@\end ...pandafter @checkenv @csname address@hidden
                                                  @csname address@hidden 
@end...
l.184 @end example

?
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The text surrounding line 184 of bfd.texinfo follows.  Line 184 is "@end 
example":

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For example, this sequence does what you would probably expect:
return the number of sections in an object file attached to a BFD
@code{abfd}.

@example
@c @cartouche
#include "bfd.h"

unsigned int number_of_sections (abfd)
bfd *abfd;
@{
  return bfd_count_sections (abfd);
@}
@c @end cartouche
@end example

The abstraction used within BFD is that an object file has:
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At the beginning of bfd.texinfo is the following, which looks like it is 
probably relevant.  However, I don't understand the texinfo macros well 
enough to know what I might do about it:

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@tex
% NOTE LOCAL KLUGE TO AVOID TOO MUCH WHITESPACE
\global\long\def\example{%
\begingroup
\let\aboveenvbreak=\par
\let\afterenvbreak=\par
\parskip=0pt
\lisp}
\global\long\def\Eexample{%
\Elisp
\endgroup
\vskip -\parskip% to cancel out effect of following \par
}
@end tex
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Any suggestions?