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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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<para><command>addr2line</command> translates program addresses to file
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names and line numbers. Given an address and the name of an executable, it
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uses the debugging information in the executable to figure out which source
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file and line number are associated with the address.</para>
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<para><command>ar</command> creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive
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is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes
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it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of
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the archive).</para>
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<para><command>as</command> is an assembler. It assembles the output of
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gcc into object files.</para>
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<para><command>c++filt</command> is used by the linker to demangle C++ and
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Java symbols, to keep overloaded functions from clashing.</para>
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<para><command>gprof</command> displays call graph profile data.</para>
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<para><command>ld</command> is a linker. It combines a number of object
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and archive files into a single file, relocating their data and tying up symbol
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references.</para>
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<para><command>nm</command> lists the symbols occurring in a given object file.</para>
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<para><command>objcopy</command> is used to translate one type of object
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file into another.</para>
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<para><command>objdump</command> displays information about the given
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object file, with options controlling what particular information to display.
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The information shown is mostly only useful to programmers who are working on
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the compilation tools.</para>
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<para><command>ranlib</command> generates an index of the contents of an
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archive, and stores it in the archive. The index lists all the symbols defined
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by archive members that are relocatable object files.</para>
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<para><command>readelf</command> displays information about elf type binaries.</para>
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<para><command>size</command> lists the section sizes -- and the grand
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total -- for the given object files.</para>
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<para><command>strings</command> outputs for each file given the sequences
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of printable characters that are of at least the specified length (defaulting to 4)
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For object files it prints by default only the strings from the initializing
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and loading sections. For other types of files it scans the whole file.</para>
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<para><command>strip</command> discards symbols from object files.</para>
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<para><command>libiberty</command> contains routines used by various GNU
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programs, including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para>
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<para><command>libbfd</command> is the Binary File Descriptor library.</para>
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<para><command>libopcodes</command> is a library for dealing with opcodes.
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It is used for building utilities like objdump. Opcodes are the "readable text"
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versions of instructions for the processor.</para>
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