A detailed description of binutils is beyond the scope of this book. For more information, see the resources listed below.
Installed Documentation
- as(1), ld(1), addr2line(1), ar(1), c++filt(1), dwp(1), elfedit(1), gprof(1), nm(1), objcopy(1), objdump(1), ranlib(1), readelf(1), size(1), strings(1), strip(1), — Manual pages for various binutils tools provide more information about their respective usage. To display a manual page for the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset, type:
scl enable devtoolset-2 'mantool'
Online Documentation
- Documentation for binutils — The binutils documentation provides an in-depth description of the binary tools and their usage.
See Also
- Section B.3, “Changes in binutils” provides a comprehensive list of features and improvements over the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system version of binutils and the version distributed in the previous release of Red Hat Developer Toolset.
- Chapter 1, Red Hat Developer Toolset provides an overview of Red Hat Developer Toolset and more information on how to install it on your system.
- Chapter 5, elfutils explains how to use elfutils, a collection of binary tools to inspect and manipulate ELF files.
- Chapter 3, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) provides information on how to compile programs written in C, C++, and Fortran.