diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 1025b0056b..8d053b3f53 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -1880,11 +1880,11 @@
                 </para>
 
                 <para>
-                    Perhaps the easiest way is to have an 'sdk' image that corresponds to the plain
+                    Perhaps the easiest way is to have an SDK image that corresponds to the plain
                     image installed on the device. 
                     In the case of <filename>core-image-sato</filename>, 
                     <filename>core-image-sato-sdk</filename> would contain suitable symbols. 
-                    Because the sdk images already have the debugging symbols installed, it is just a 
+                    Because the SDK images already have the debugging symbols installed, it is just a 
                     question of expanding the archive to some location and then informing GDB. 
                 </para>
 
@@ -2015,13 +2015,18 @@
             <filename>-fno-omit-framepointer</filename> flag. 
             You can achieve this by setting the 
             <filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION'>SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION</ulink></filename>
-            variable to 
-            <filename>-fexpensive-optimizations -fno-omit-framepointer -frename-registers -O2</filename>. 
+            variable with the following options:
+            <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     -fexpensive-optimizations
+     -fno-omit-framepointer
+     -frename-registers 
+     -O2
+            </literallayout> 
             You can also achieve it by setting the
             <filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-DEBUG_BUILD'>DEBUG_BUILD</ulink></filename> 
             variable to "1" in the <filename>local.conf</filename> configuration file.
-            If you use the <filename>DEBUG_BUILD</filename> variable you will also add extra debug information 
-            that can make the debug packages large.
+            If you use the <filename>DEBUG_BUILD</filename> variable,
+            you will also add extra debug information that can make the debug packages large.
         </para>
 
         <section id="platdev-oprofile-target">