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<h1 class="settitle">GNU Binary Utilities</h1>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li><a name="toc_Top" href="index.html#Top">Introduction</a>
<li><a name="toc_ar" href="ar.html#ar">1 ar</a>
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<li><a href="ar-cmdline.html#ar-cmdline">1.1 Controlling <samp><span class="command">ar</span></samp> on the Command Line</a>
<li><a href="ar-scripts.html#ar-scripts">1.2 Controlling <samp><span class="command">ar</span></samp> with a Script</a>
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<li><a name="toc_nm" href="nm.html#nm">2 nm</a>
<li><a name="toc_objcopy" href="objcopy.html#objcopy">3 objcopy</a>
<li><a name="toc_objdump" href="objdump.html#objdump">4 objdump</a>
<li><a name="toc_ranlib" href="ranlib.html#ranlib">5 ranlib</a>
<li><a name="toc_size" href="size.html#size">6 size</a>
<li><a name="toc_strings" href="strings.html#strings">7 strings</a>
<li><a name="toc_strip" href="strip.html#strip">8 strip</a>
<li><a name="toc_c_002b_002bfilt" href="c_002b_002bfilt.html#c_002b_002bfilt">9 c++filt</a>
<li><a name="toc_addr2line" href="addr2line.html#addr2line">10 addr2line</a>
<li><a name="toc_nlmconv" href="nlmconv.html#nlmconv">11 nlmconv</a>
<li><a name="toc_windmc" href="windmc.html#windmc">12 windmc</a>
<li><a name="toc_windres" href="windres.html#windres">13 windres</a>
<li><a name="toc_dlltool" href="dlltool.html#dlltool">14 dlltool</a>
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<li><a href="def-file-format.html#def-file-format">14.1 The format of the <samp><span class="command">dlltool</span></samp> <samp><span class="file">.def</span></samp> file</a>
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<li><a name="toc_readelf" href="readelf.html#readelf">15 readelf</a>
<li><a name="toc_elfedit" href="elfedit.html#elfedit">16 elfedit</a>
<li><a name="toc_Common-Options" href="Common-Options.html#Common-Options">17 Common Options</a>
<li><a name="toc_Selecting-the-Target-System" href="Selecting-the-Target-System.html#Selecting-the-Target-System">18 Selecting the Target System</a>
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<li><a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">18.1 Target Selection</a>
<li><a href="Architecture-Selection.html#Architecture-Selection">18.2 Architecture Selection</a>
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<li><a name="toc_Reporting-Bugs" href="Reporting-Bugs.html#Reporting-Bugs">19 Reporting Bugs</a>
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<li><a href="Bug-Criteria.html#Bug-Criteria">19.1 Have You Found a Bug?</a>
<li><a href="Bug-Reporting.html#Bug-Reporting">19.2 How to Report Bugs</a>
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<li><a name="toc_GNU-Free-Documentation-License" href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License">Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License</a>
<li><a name="toc_Binutils-Index" href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index">Binutils Index</a>
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<h2 class="unnumbered">Introduction</h2>
<p><a name="index-version-1"></a>This brief manual contains documentation for the <span class="sc">gnu</span> binary
utilities
(GNU Binutils)
version 2.26:
<p>This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License version 1.3. A copy of the license is included
in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="ar.html#ar">ar</a>: Create, modify, and extract from archives
<li><a accesskey="2" href="nm.html#nm">nm</a>: List symbols from object files
<li><a accesskey="3" href="objcopy.html#objcopy">objcopy</a>: Copy and translate object files
<li><a accesskey="4" href="objdump.html#objdump">objdump</a>: Display information from object files
<li><a accesskey="5" href="ranlib.html#ranlib">ranlib</a>: Generate index to archive contents
<li><a accesskey="6" href="size.html#size">size</a>: List section sizes and total size
<li><a accesskey="7" href="strings.html#strings">strings</a>: List printable strings from files
<li><a accesskey="8" href="strip.html#strip">strip</a>: Discard symbols
<li><a accesskey="9" href="c_002b_002bfilt.html#c_002b_002bfilt">c++filt</a>: Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols
<li><a href="c_002b_002bfilt.html#c_002b_002bfilt">cxxfilt</a>: MS-DOS name for c++filt
<li><a href="addr2line.html#addr2line">addr2line</a>: Convert addresses to file and line
<li><a href="nlmconv.html#nlmconv">nlmconv</a>: Converts object code into an NLM
<li><a href="windmc.html#windmc">windmc</a>: Generator for Windows message resources
<li><a href="windres.html#windres">windres</a>: Manipulate Windows resources
<li><a href="dlltool.html#dlltool">dlltool</a>: Create files needed to build and use DLLs
<li><a href="readelf.html#readelf">readelf</a>: Display the contents of ELF format files
<li><a href="elfedit.html#elfedit">elfedit</a>: Update the ELF header of ELF files
<li><a href="Common-Options.html#Common-Options">Common Options</a>: Command-line options for all utilities
<li><a href="Selecting-the-Target-System.html#Selecting-the-Target-System">Selecting the Target System</a>: How these utilities determine the target
<li><a href="Reporting-Bugs.html#Reporting-Bugs">Reporting Bugs</a>: Reporting Bugs
<li><a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>: GNU Free Documentation License
<li><a href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index">Binutils Index</a>: Binutils Index
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