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The GNU binutils package contains essential tools to assemble, link and
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manipulate binary and object files. They are often used with a compiler
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and additional libraries for building software.
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It includes the GNU linker, the portable GNU assembler, ar for modifying
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archives (such as libraries), nm for listing symbols from object files,
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objdump for displaying object file information, ranlib for generating
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archive indexes, size for listing section sizes of object files,
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strings for outputing the printable characters in files, strip for
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stripping out symbols (like debugging information) from object files,
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and other tools.
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