GNU Binary Utilities

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Introduction

This brief manual contains preliminary documentation for the GNU binary utilities (collectively version 2.12):

This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

• ar: Create, modify, and extract from archives
• nm: List symbols from object files
• objcopy: Copy and translate object files
• objdump: Display information from object files
• ranlib: Generate index to archive contents
• readelf: Display the contents of ELF format files.
• size: List section sizes and total size
• strings: List printable strings from files
• strip: Discard symbols
• c++filt: Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols
• cxxfilt: MS-DOS name for c++filt
• addr2line: Convert addresses to file and line
• nlmconv: Converts object code into an NLM
• windres: Manipulate Windows resources
• dlltool: Create files needed to build and use DLLs
• Selecting The Target System: How these utilities determine the target.
• Reporting Bugs: Reporting Bugs
• GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License
• Index: Index