GNU Binutils
The GNU Binutils is a collection of programming tools developed by the Free Software Foundation for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. They are typically used in conjunction with GCC, make and GDB. The binutils include the following commands: as - assembler ld - linker addr2line - convert address to file and line ar - create, modify, and extract from archives c++filt - demangling filter for C++ symbols nm - list symbols in object files objcopy - copy object files, possibly making changes objdump - dump information about object files ranlib - generate indexes for archives readelf - display content of ELF files size - list total and section sizes strings - list printable strings strip - remove symbols from an object file gprof - Profiler Originally the package consisted of only the minor utilities, but later the GNU Assembler (GAS) and GNU Linker (GLD) were included in releases, since their functionality is so closely related. Most of binutil is a rather simple program; most of the complexity is encapsulated in the BFD and libopcodes libraries that they share.
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