The GNU Binary Utilities

Version 2.9.1

May 1993

This brief manual contains preliminary documentation for the GNU binary utilities (collectively version 2.9.1):

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

size

List file section sizes and total size

strings

List printable strings from files

strip

Discard symbols

c++filt

Demangle encoded C++ symbols

addr2line

Convert addresses into file names and line numbers

nlmconv

Convert object code into a Netware Loadable Module

windres

Manipulate Windows resources

• 1 ar
  • 1.1 Controlling ar on the command line
  • 1.2 Controlling ar with a script
• 2 ld
• 3 nm
• 4 objcopy
• 5 objdump
• 6 ranlib
• 7 size
• 8 strings
• 9 strip
• 10 c++filt
• 11 addr2line
• 12 nlmconv
• 13 windres
• 14 Selecting the target system
  • 14.1 Target Selection
  • 14.2 Architecture selection
  • 14.3 Linker emulation selection
• 15 Reporting Bugs
  • 15.1 Have you found a bug?
  • 15.2 How to report bugs
• Index

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