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-<sect2>
-<title>Description</title>
-
-<para>
-The Binutils package contains the ld, as, ar, nm, objcopy, objdump,
-ranlib, size, strings, strip, c++filt, addr2line and nlmconv programs
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2><title>Description</title>
-
-<sect3><title>ld</title>
-
-<para>
-ld combines a number of object and archive files, relocates their data
-and ties up symbol references. Often the last step in building a new compiled
-program to run is a call to ld.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>as</title>
-
-<para>
-as is primarily intended to assemble the output of the GNU C compiler gcc
-for use by the linker ld.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>ar</title>
-
-<para>
-The ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is
-a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes
-it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of
-the archive).
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>nm</title>
-
-<para>
-nm lists the symbols from object files.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>objcopy</title>
-
-<para>
-objcopy utility copies the contents of an object file to another. objcopy
-uses the GNU BFD Library to read and write the object files. It can write
-the destination object file in a format different from that of the source
-object file.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>objdump</title>
-
-<para>
-objdump displays information about one or more object files. The options
-control what particular information to display. This information is mostly
-useful to programmers who are working on the compilation tools, as opposed to
-programmers who just want their program to compile and work.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>ranlib</title>
-
-<para>
-ranlib generates an index to the contents of an archive, and stores it in
-the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by a member of an archive
-that is a relocatable object file.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>size</title>
-
-<para>
-size lists the section sizes --and the total size-- for each of the object
-files objfile in its argument list. By default, one line of output is
-generated for each object file or each module in an archive.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>strings</title>
-
-<para>
-For each file given, strings prints the printable character sequences
-that are at least 4 characters long (or the number specified with an
-option to the program) and are followed by an unprintable character. By
-default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded
-sections of object files; for other types of files, it prints the strings
-from the whole file.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>strip</title>
-
-<para>
-strip discards all or specific symbols from object files. The list of
-object files may include archives. At least one object file must be
-given. strip modifies the files named in its argument, rather than writing
-modified copies under different names.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>c++filt</title>
-
-<para>
-The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that you can
-write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters
-of different types). All C++ function names are encoded into a low-level
-assembly label (this process is known as mangling). The c++filt program
-does the inverse mapping: it decodes (demangles) low-level names into
-user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded functions
-from clashing.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>addr2line</title>
-
-<para>
-addr2line translates program addresses into file names and line numbers.
-Given an address and an executable, it uses the debugging information in
-the executable to figure out which file name and line number are associated
-with a given address.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>nlmconv</title>
-
-<para>
-nlmconv converts relocatable object files into the NetWare Loadable Module
-files, optionally reading header files for NLM header information.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-</sect2>
-