Introduction to the GNU binary utilities

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Introduction to the GNU binary utilities

This documentation contains basic descriptions for the following GNU binary utilities:

To create, modify, and extract from archives

To list symbols from object files

objcopy

To copy and translate object files

objdump

To display information from object files

ranlib

To generate index to archive contents

size

To list file section sizes and total size

strings

To list printable strings from files

strip

To discard symbols

c++filt

To demangle encoded C++ symbols

addr2line

To convert addresses into file names and line numbers

nlmconv

To convert object code into a Netware Loadable Module (NLM)

windres

To manipulate Windows resources