GNU Binary Utilities

GNU Binary Utilities

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1 ar
  • 1.1 Controlling ar on the Command Line
  • 1.2 Controlling ar with a Script
• 2 nm
• 3 objcopy
• 4 objdump
• 5 ranlib
• 6 size
• 7 strings
• 8 strip
• 9 c++filt
• 10 addr2line
• 11 nlmconv
• 12 windmc
• 13 windres
• 14 dlltool
  • 14.1 The format of the dlltool .def file
• 15 readelf
• 16 elfedit
• 17 Common Options
• 18 Selecting the Target System
  • 18.1 Target Selection
  • 18.2 Architecture Selection
• 19 Reporting Bugs
  • 19.1 Have You Found a Bug?
  • 19.2 How to Report Bugs
• Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
• Binutils Index

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Introduction

This brief manual contains documentation for the gnu binaryutilities(GNU Binutils)version 2.26:

This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU FreeDocumentation License version 1.3. A copy of the license is includedin 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
• 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
• windmc: Generator for Windows message resources
• windres: Manipulate Windows resources
• dlltool: Create files needed to build and use DLLs
• readelf: Display the contents of ELF format files
• elfedit: Update the ELF header of ELF files
• Common Options: Command-line options for all utilities
• Selecting the Target System: How these utilities determine the target
• Reporting Bugs: Reporting Bugs
• GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License
• Binutils Index: Binutils Index