GNU Binary Utilities

Introduction

This brief manual contains documentation for the gnu binary utilities (GNU Binutils) version 2.20.51:

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• 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
• readelf: Display the contents of ELF format files
• size: List section sizes and total size
• strings: List printable strings from files
• strip: Discard symbols
• elfedit: Update the ELF header of ELF files
• 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
• windres: Manipulate Windows resources
• windmc: Generator for Windows message resources
• dlltool: Create files needed to build and use DLLs
• 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