1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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3 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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4 |
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5 | <para><command>addr2line</command> translates program addresses to file
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6 | names and line numbers. Given an address and the name of an executable, it
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7 | uses the debugging information in the executable to figure out which source
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8 | file and line number are associated with the address.</para>
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9 |
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10 | <para><command>ar</command> creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive
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11 | is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes
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12 | it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of
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13 | the archive).</para>
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14 |
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15 | <para><command>as</command> is an assembler. It assembles the output of
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16 | gcc into object files.</para>
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17 |
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18 | <para><command>c++filt</command> is used by the linker to demangle C++ and
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19 | Java symbols, to keep overloaded functions from clashing.</para>
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20 |
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21 | <para><command>gprof</command> displays call graph profile data.</para>
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22 |
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23 | <para><command>ld</command> is a linker. It combines a number of object
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24 | and archive files into a single file, relocating their data and tying up symbol
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25 | references.</para>
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26 |
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27 | <para><command>nm</command> lists the symbols occurring in a given object file.</para>
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28 |
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29 | <para><command>objcopy</command> is used to translate one type of object
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30 | file into another.</para>
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31 |
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32 | <para><command>objdump</command> displays information about the given
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33 | object file, with options controlling what particular information to display.
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34 | The information shown is mostly only useful to programmers who are working on
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35 | the compilation tools.</para>
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36 |
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37 | <para><command>ranlib</command> generates an index of the contents of an
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38 | archive, and stores it in the archive. The index lists all the symbols defined
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39 | by archive members that are relocatable object files.</para>
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40 |
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41 | <para><command>readelf</command> displays information about elf type binaries.</para>
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42 |
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43 | <para><command>size</command> lists the section sizes -- and the grand
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44 | total -- for the given object files.</para>
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45 |
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46 | <para><command>strings</command> outputs for each file given the sequences
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47 | of printable characters that are of at least the specified length (defaulting to 4)
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48 | For object files it prints by default only the strings from the initializing
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49 | and loading sections. For other types of files it scans the whole file.</para>
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50 |
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51 | <para><command>strip</command> discards symbols from object files.</para>
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52 |
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53 | <para><command>libiberty</command> contains routines used by various GNU
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54 | programs, including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para>
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55 |
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56 | <para><command>libbfd</command> is the Binary File Descriptor library.</para>
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57 |
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58 | <para><command>libopcodes</command> is a library for dealing with opcodes.
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59 | It is used for building utilities like objdump. Opcodes are the "readable text"
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60 | versions of instructions for the processor.</para>
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62 | </sect2>
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63 |
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