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| 6 | %general-entities;
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| 7 | %patches-entities;
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| 8 | ]>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect1 id="ch-system-binutils" role="wrap">
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| 11 | <?dbhtml filename="binutils.html"?>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <title>Binutils-&binutils-version;</title>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils">
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| 16 | <primary sortas="a-Binutils">Binutils</primary>
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| 17 | </indexterm>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 20 | <title/>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>The Binutils package contains a linker, an assembler, and other
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| 23 | tools for handling object files.</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <segmentedlist>
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| 26 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 27 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <seglistitem>
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| 30 | <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
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| 31 | <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
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| 32 | </seglistitem>
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| 33 | </segmentedlist>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <segmentedlist>
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| 36 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <seglistitem>
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| 39 | <seg>Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
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| 40 | Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo</seg>
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| 41 | </seglistitem>
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| 42 | </segmentedlist>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | </sect2>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 47 | <title>Installation of Binutils</title>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para os="a">This package is known to have issues when its default
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| 50 | optimization flags (including the <option>-march</option> and
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| 51 | <option>-mcpu</option> options) are changed. If any environment
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| 52 | variables that override default optimizations have been defined, such
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| 53 | as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>,
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| 54 | unset them when building Binutils.</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <para os="b">Verify that the PTYs are working properly inside the build
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| 57 | environment. Check that everything is set up correctly by performing a
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| 58 | simple test:</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <screen os="c"><userinput>expect -c "spawn ls"</userinput></screen>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <para os="d">If the following message shows up, the environment is not
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| 63 | set up for proper PTY operation:</para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <screen os="e"><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
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| 66 | Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <para os="f">This issue needs to be resolved before running the test suites
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| 69 | for Binutils and GCC.</para>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <para os="g">The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the
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| 72 | source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <screen os="h"><userinput>mkdir ../binutils-build
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| 75 | cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para os="i">Prepare Binutils for compilation:</para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <screen><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 80 | --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <screen os="k"><userinput>make configure-host</userinput></screen>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <important os="l">
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| 87 | <para>During <command>make configure-host</command> you may receive the
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| 88 | following error message. It is safe to ignore.</para>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <screen><computeroutput>WARNING: `flex' is missing on your system. You should only
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| 91 | need it if you modified a `.l' file. You may need the `Flex'
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| 92 | package in order for those modifications to take effect. You
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| 93 | can get `Flex' from any GNU archive site.</computeroutput></screen>
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| 94 | </important>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <screen os="m"><userinput>make tooldir=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <para os="n">Normally, the tooldir (the directory where the executables
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| 99 | will ultimately be located) is set to <filename
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| 100 | class="directory">$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)</filename>. For
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| 101 | example, i686 machines would expand that to <filename
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| 102 | class="directory">/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu</filename>. Because this
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| 103 | is a custom system, this target-specific directory in <filename
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| 104 | class="directory">/usr</filename> is not required. <filename
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| 105 | class="directory">$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)</filename> would
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| 106 | be used if the system was used to cross-compile (for example,
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| 107 | compiling a package on an Intel machine that generates code that
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| 108 | can be executed on PowerPC machines).</para>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <important os="o">
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| 111 | <para>The test suite for Binutils in this section is considered critical.
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| 112 | Do not skip it under any circumstances.</para>
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| 113 | </important>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <para os="p">Test the results:</para>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <screen os="q"><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <para os="r">Install the package:</para>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <screen os="s"><userinput>make tooldir=/usr install</userinput></screen>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | <para os="t">Install the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty</filename> header
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| 124 | file that is needed by some packages:</para>
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| 125 |
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| 126 | <screen os="u"><userinput>cp ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | </sect2>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <sect2 id="contents-binutils" role="content">
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| 131 | <title>Contents of Binutils</title>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <segmentedlist>
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| 134 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 135 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <seglistitem>
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| 138 | <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump,
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| 139 | ranlib, readelf, size, strings, and strip</seg>
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| 140 | <seg>libiberty.a, libbfd.[a,so], and libopcodes.[a,so]</seg>
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| 141 | </seglistitem>
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| 142 | </segmentedlist>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <variablelist>
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| 145 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 146 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 147 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <varlistentry id="addr2line">
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| 150 | <term><command>addr2line</command></term>
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| 151 | <listitem>
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| 152 | <para>Translates program addresses to file names and line numbers;
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| 153 | given an address and the name of an executable, it uses the debugging
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| 154 | information in the executable to determine which source file and line
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| 155 | number are associated with the address</para>
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| 156 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils addr2line">
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| 157 | <primary sortas="b-addr2line">addr2line</primary>
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| 158 | </indexterm>
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| 159 | </listitem>
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| 160 | </varlistentry>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <varlistentry id="ar">
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| 163 | <term><command>ar</command></term>
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| 164 | <listitem>
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| 165 | <para>Creates, modifies, and extracts from archives</para>
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| 166 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ar">
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| 167 | <primary sortas="b-ar">ar</primary>
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| 168 | </indexterm>
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| 169 | </listitem>
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| 170 | </varlistentry>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | <varlistentry id="as">
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| 173 | <term><command>as</command></term>
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| 174 | <listitem>
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| 175 | <para>An assembler that assembles the output of <command>gcc</command>
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| 176 | into object files</para>
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| 177 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils as">
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| 178 | <primary sortas="b-as">as</primary>
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| 179 | </indexterm>
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| 180 | </listitem>
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| 181 | </varlistentry>
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| 182 |
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| 183 | <varlistentry id="c-filt">
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| 184 | <term><command>c++filt</command></term>
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| 185 | <listitem>
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| 186 | <para>Used by the linker to de-mangle C++ and Java symbols and to keep
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| 187 | overloaded functions from clashing</para>
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| 188 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils c-filt">
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| 189 | <primary sortas="b-c++filt">c++filt</primary>
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| 190 | </indexterm>
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| 191 | </listitem>
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| 192 | </varlistentry>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <varlistentry id="gprof">
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| 195 | <term><command>gprof</command></term>
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| 196 | <listitem>
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| 197 | <para>Displays call graph profile data</para>
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| 198 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils gprof">
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| 199 | <primary sortas="b-gprof">gprof</primary>
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| 200 | </indexterm>
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| 201 | </listitem>
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| 202 | </varlistentry>
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| 203 |
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| 204 | <varlistentry id="ld">
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| 205 | <term><command>ld</command></term>
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| 206 | <listitem>
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| 207 | <para>A linker that combines a number of object and archive files
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| 208 | into a single file, relocating their data and tying up symbol
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| 209 | references</para>
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| 210 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld">
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| 211 | <primary sortas="b-ld">ld</primary>
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| 212 | </indexterm>
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| 213 | </listitem>
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| 214 | </varlistentry>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <varlistentry id="nm">
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| 217 | <term><command>nm</command></term>
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| 218 | <listitem>
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| 219 | <para>Lists the symbols occurring in a given object file</para>
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| 220 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils nm">
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| 221 | <primary sortas="b-nm">nm</primary>
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| 222 | </indexterm>
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| 223 | </listitem>
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| 224 | </varlistentry>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | <varlistentry id="objcopy">
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| 227 | <term><command>objcopy</command></term>
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| 228 | <listitem>
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| 229 | <para>Translates one type of object file into another</para>
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| 230 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils objcopy">
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| 231 | <primary sortas="b-objcopy">objcopy</primary>
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| 232 | </indexterm>
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| 233 | </listitem>
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| 234 | </varlistentry>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <varlistentry id="objdump">
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| 237 | <term><command>objdump</command></term>
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| 238 | <listitem>
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| 239 | <para>Displays information about the given object file, with options
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| 240 | controlling the particular information to display; the information
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| 241 | shown is useful to programmers who are working on the compilation
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| 242 | tools</para>
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| 243 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils objdump">
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| 244 | <primary sortas="b-objdump">objdump</primary>
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| 245 | </indexterm>
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| 246 | </listitem>
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| 247 | </varlistentry>
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| 248 |
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| 249 | <varlistentry id="ranlib">
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| 250 | <term><command>ranlib</command></term>
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| 251 | <listitem>
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| 252 | <para>Generates an index of the contents of an archive and stores it
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| 253 | in the archive; the index lists all of the symbols defined by archive
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| 254 | members that are relocatable object files</para>
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| 255 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ranlib">
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| 256 | <primary sortas="b-ranlib">ranlib</primary>
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| 257 | </indexterm>
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| 258 | </listitem>
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| 259 | </varlistentry>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | <varlistentry id="readelf">
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| 262 | <term><command>readelf</command></term>
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| 263 | <listitem>
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| 264 | <para>Displays information about ELF type binaries</para>
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| 265 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils readelf">
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| 266 | <primary sortas="b-readelf">readelf</primary>
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| 267 | </indexterm>
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| 268 | </listitem>
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| 269 | </varlistentry>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <varlistentry id="size">
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| 272 | <term><command>size</command></term>
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| 273 | <listitem>
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| 274 | <para>Lists the section sizes and the total size for the given
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| 275 | object files</para>
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| 276 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils size">
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| 277 | <primary sortas="b-size">size</primary>
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| 278 | </indexterm>
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| 279 | </listitem>
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| 280 | </varlistentry>
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| 281 |
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| 282 | <varlistentry id="strings">
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| 283 | <term><command>strings</command></term>
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| 284 | <listitem>
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| 285 | <para>Outputs, for each given file, the sequences of printable
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| 286 | characters that are of at least the specified length (defaulting to
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| 287 | four); for object files, it prints, by default, only the strings from
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| 288 | the initializing and loading sections while for other types of files,
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| 289 | it scans the entire file</para>
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| 290 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils strings">
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| 291 | <primary sortas="b-strings">strings</primary>
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| 292 | </indexterm>
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| 293 | </listitem>
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| 294 | </varlistentry>
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| 295 |
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| 296 | <varlistentry id="strip">
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| 297 | <term><command>strip</command></term>
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| 298 | <listitem>
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| 299 | <para>Discards symbols from object files</para>
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| 300 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils strip">
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| 301 | <primary sortas="b-strip">strip</primary>
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| 302 | </indexterm>
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| 303 | </listitem>
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| 304 | </varlistentry>
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| 305 |
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| 306 | <varlistentry id="libiberty">
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| 307 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libiberty</filename></term>
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| 308 | <listitem>
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| 309 | <para>Contains routines used by various GNU programs, including
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| 310 | <command>getopt</command>, <command>obstack</command>,
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| 311 | <command>strerror</command>, <command>strtol</command>, and
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| 312 | <command>strtoul</command></para>
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| 313 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libiberty">
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| 314 | <primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary>
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| 315 | </indexterm>
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| 316 | </listitem>
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| 317 | </varlistentry>
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| 318 |
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| 319 | <varlistentry id="libbfd">
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| 320 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbfd</filename></term>
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| 321 | <listitem>
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| 322 | <para>The Binary File Descriptor library</para>
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| 323 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libbfd">
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| 324 | <primary sortas="c-libbfd">libbfd</primary>
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| 325 | </indexterm>
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| 326 | </listitem>
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| 327 | </varlistentry>
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| 328 |
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| 329 | <varlistentry id="libopcodes">
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| 330 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libopcodes</filename></term>
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| 331 | <listitem>
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| 332 | <para>A library for dealing with opcodes—the <quote>readable
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| 333 | text</quote> versions of instructions for the processor;
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| 334 | it is used for building utilities like
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| 335 | <command>objdump</command>.</para>
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| 336 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libopcodes">
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| 337 | <primary sortas="c-libopcodes">libopcodes</primary>
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| 338 | </indexterm>
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| 339 | </listitem>
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| 340 | </varlistentry>
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| 341 |
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| 342 | </variablelist>
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| 343 |
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| 344 | </sect2>
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| 345 |
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| 346 | </sect1>
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