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Introduction to the GNU binary utilities

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

ar
To create, modify, and extract from archives

nm
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

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