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A copy of the license is included 130in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. 131</p> 132<table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> 133<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="ar.html#ar" accesskey="1">ar</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Create, modify, and extract from archives 134</td></tr> 135<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="nm.html#nm" accesskey="2">nm</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">List symbols from object files 136</td></tr> 137<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="objcopy.html#objcopy" accesskey="3">objcopy</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Copy and translate object files 138</td></tr> 139<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="objdump.html#objdump" accesskey="4">objdump</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Display information from object files 140</td></tr> 141<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="ranlib.html#ranlib" accesskey="5">ranlib</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Generate index to archive contents 142</td></tr> 143<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="size.html#size" accesskey="6">size</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">List section sizes and total size 144</td></tr> 145<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="strings.html#strings" accesskey="7">strings</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">List printable strings from files 146</td></tr> 147<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="strip.html#strip" accesskey="8">strip</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Discard symbols 148</td></tr> 149<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="c_002b_002bfilt.html#c_002b_002bfilt" accesskey="9">c++filt</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols 150</td></tr> 151<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="c_002b_002bfilt.html#c_002b_002bfilt">cxxfilt</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">MS-DOS name for c++filt 152</td></tr> 153<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="addr2line.html#addr2line">addr2line</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Convert addresses to file and line 154</td></tr> 155<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="windmc.html#windmc">windmc</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Generator for Windows message resources 156</td></tr> 157<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="windres.html#windres">windres</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Manipulate Windows resources 158</td></tr> 159<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="dlltool.html#dlltool">dlltool</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Create files needed to build and use DLLs 160</td></tr> 161<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="readelf.html#readelf">readelf</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Display the contents of ELF format files 162</td></tr> 163<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="elfedit.html#elfedit">elfedit</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Update ELF header and property of ELF files 164</td></tr> 165<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Common-Options.html#Common-Options">Common Options</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Command-line options for all utilities 166</td></tr> 167<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Selecting-the-Target-System.html#Selecting-the-Target-System">Selecting the Target System</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How these utilities determine the target 168</td></tr> 169<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="debuginfod.html#debuginfod">debuginfod</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Using binutils with debuginfod 170</td></tr> 171<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Reporting-Bugs.html#Reporting-Bugs">Reporting Bugs</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Reporting Bugs 172</td></tr> 173<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">GNU Free Documentation License 174</td></tr> 175<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index">Binutils Index</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Binutils Index 176</td></tr> 177</table> 178 179<hr> 180<div class="header"> 181<p> 182Next: <a href="ar.html#ar" accesskey="n" rel="next">ar</a>, Up: <a href="../dir/index.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">(dir)</a> [<a href="#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> 183</div> 184 185 186 187</body> 188</html> 189